Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McNamara charged that one of his most faithful subordinates, board member and prospective treasurer Donald G. Wray, had sold out to the AFL and had been working as an inside man to convince members to abandon the local union...
John W. Stokes '54 said last night that the Student Council will probably abandon any further action on the plan this year...
Asians would still like to look upon America as the defender of freedom, Sundaram said. "India particularly has taken so much in the way of ideology from America that it is unlikely to abandon America unless America in turn abandons this ideology." The stress in U.S.-Asian relations is the feeling of many Asians that this ideology of freedom is in large part being abandoned in this country, Sundaram added...
...thought that Taruc had ceased to be a Communist or had seen the light about democracy; rather, Communist strategy now was to abandon guerrilla warfare in favor of political infiltration. Taruc's field commanders got down to cases with a team of army negotiators at Mount Banahaw, 40 miles south of Manila. They offered to deposit their arms in mountain hideouts guarded by their own men, and to surrender the arms after they were convinced of the government's sincerity. In return, they asked a general amnesty and presidential clemency for Huks convicted of crimes. Army Chief...
Greene objected on grounds of "taste," and suggested that the Society abandon its plans "lest questions of propriety should be raised." The Reed Society hit back in a formal reply, "It had been our understanding that the selection of speakers for undergraduate organizations was not one of Mr. Greene's duties," they said...