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Word: abandon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years to an Izumo priestess, O-Kuni, who is said to have developed the Kabuki theater from ceremonial shrine dances. At first, most of O-Kuni's female players were young courtesans, and as time went on, their costumes, gyrations and behavior developed an air of such gay abandon that "many people were led astray," say Japanese authorities. In 1629, women were forbidden to take part in the Kabuki theaters, and male actors have played all the female roles ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: JAPANESE IMPORT: THE DANCE-DRAMA | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

Impossible to Abandon...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Air Force May Receive Share of Larger Draft | 2/16/1954 | See Source »

...maintain a 3,000 man defense force. Speaking on the "Youth Wants to Know" TV show last month, he stated that "we have, in effect, UMT now." With only 150,000 men coming of age each year fit for military service, Hannah has called it impossible to abandon and draft even for an all-out UMT program, until 1960 at the earliest...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Air Force May Receive Share of Larger Draft | 2/16/1954 | See Source »

...Communists won another headline far to the south, when green Vietnamese nationalist troops surrendered 40 roadblocks without a fight. "We are stronger than you are," the Communists told them. "We are going to attack. We will let you withdraw if you abandon your posts." The Vietnamese withdrew but did not join the Communists. Like many other Indo-Chinese, they chose attentisme, or wait-and-seeism. They would join, the side that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Battle for Headlines | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...only pub in No Place, the pitmen agreed that they would not abandon No Place without a fight. The pits still had 30 or 40 years' working in them, they argued. The Rev. Ronald Halstead came over from his vicarage in West Felling, a mile away, to organize a protest meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: No Place to Go | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

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