Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President has ever been subpoenaed before. Two court subpoenas were issued to President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 by Chief Justice John Marshall in the treason proceedings against Aaron Burr. Jefferson refused on both the grounds that no court could force him to "abandon superior duties," and because of "the necessary right of the President to decide . . . what papers . . . the public interests permit to be communicated." At least 16 Presidents, among them Washington, Coolidge and Hoover, have declined to supply Congress with certain requested information...
Packard, a notable holdout for a straight-eight engine, plans to abandon it for a V-8 in its 1955 models. General Motors will also switch to V-8s for its two lowest-priced lines-Chevrolet and Pontiac...
...superb B-flat Sonata (K. 333) Mr. Lewin also failed to achieve the abandon one might hope for, he yet gave it a fluent and sensitive reading to end this highly satisfying program...
...news on election day, some G.O.P. members of Congress, e.g., North Dakota's Senator Milton R. Young, shouted that Secretary Benson must go because "he has lost the confidence of the farmers." Others cried that the Wisconsin results meant that Congress would not and could not abandon rigid support of farm prices at 90% of parity. Democrats, and some Republicans, said that the Eisenhower Administration had already lost the farm vote...
...Good Times. Toward the end of the Alemán regime, the government's gay caballeros seemed to abandon all restraint. The smiling President, who loved the companionship of happy people and prided himself on his conviviality, went from one party to another. Sometimes the cronies would repair to an Acapulco yacht or to one of the ranches, and certain members of the inner circle would invite a planeload of high-spirited girls to join the party. At one time or another, the name of almost every well-known Mexican movie actress was whispered as a presidential party guest...