Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Attlee exploded: "We did not abandon any of these agreements . . . We carried them out." But the old man rumbled on: "When I visited the U.S. two years ago, I showe this document to Senator Mc-Mahon ... He told me: 'If I had seen this agreement, there would have been no McMahon Act.' " The House rocked in amazement. "Resign!" shouted Laborites. Beefy Laborite M.P. Bessie Braddock bawled: "Why don't you get out?" But Sir Winston just plowed on through the fertile soil of logic...
...your March i issue. To an old believer in the subjective approach to life . . . this is akin to a discovery that Santa Claus is actually Malenkov in disguise . . . Having been powerfully impressed by the floodlight of logic that shone from his Generation of Vipers . . . one wonders how Wylie can abandon his brothers . . . PAUL W. PYLE Rochester...
Since Secretary of State Dulles uttered those words ten weeks ago, a confused discussion about what he meant has spread across the U.S. and around the world. The questions snowballed. Did Dulles mean that the U.S. would abandon local ground defense, perhaps withdraw its ground troops from Europe? Would the U.S. rely solely on air-atomic power? Did Dulles mean that any war would automatically be turned into the big atomic war? Did "instantly" mean that the President would take the U.S. into war without consulting Congress or allies...
...well in New Haven. It gets pretty dull when you win 113 meets in a row, and people have been going to fencing matches instead. And so, with the reckless abandon of a tapped junior, the Daily recently came out for an improvement in the Yale swimming situation...
...teachers, for few professions in France are so poorly paid. Average salaries run from $85 a month for primary schoolteachers to $300 for full-fledged university professors. As a result, says Deputy Charles Viatte, "each year practically all the professors who receive their agrégation in physics immediately abandon the teaching profession. The agrégation is the degree which normally should lead them to teach in lycées and universities, but industry offers them salaries which are three times higher than university pay." Added a spokesman for the teachers' federation: "Our teachers . . . make less money than...