Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abandon construction of 22 combat air bases and 32 supporting installations (radar, supply, training, etc.) which would have been completed at the end of the fiscal year, leaving a total of 199 combat bases, 519 supporting installations...
...running his division, Trustbuster Barnes plans to use a fresh legal approach. Object: less litigation, more results. In two new unspecified cases, Barnes says he will put drafts of Government complaints on the desks of prospective defendants, hopes thereby to "persuade" them to abandon their objectionable monopolistic practices before even getting into court. And in another case, also unnamed, Barnes expects to make antitrust history: within 60 days, the Government and the defendant hope to submit the case to a federal court on a mutually agreed statement of facts, thereby sparing both parties the tedious months and years of testimony...
...Governor James Byrnes to be one of five U.S. delegates to the eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. Howls of protest rose. Chief complaint: Byrnes is one of the South's best-known champions of race segregation; as governor, he pledged his administration to abandon South Carolina's public-school system if the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in the schools. The U.N.'s General Assembly contains many Asian and African delegates explosively sensitive on the subject of race. Sample protests in telegrams to the President...
...Australia, the rabbit is a public enemy. He nibbles the sheep ranges bald, defies traps and poison, and reproduces with devastating abandon. About the only thing he has not done is to take a gun to the human hunters, as the rabbit did in the nursery rhyme, Struwwelpeter. Thus, few Australians mourned when government anti-rabbit scientists declared biological warfare on the rabbit. They imported from South America a rabbit virus disease, myxomatosis, which kills by causing tumors, and in 1950 planted it in Australia's rabbit-infested backlands. It spread like a grass fire, killing rabbits...
...change in scenery. He gives most of the credit to Chicago Manager Paul Richards, a former catcher whose knowledge on the handling of pitchers is as deep as a well. Richards trained Trucks to change his grip on the "change-up" pitch, i.e., his slow ball, and to abandon his sidearm delivery for an overhand motion. Says Trucks: "I never thought I'd be learning a new pitch in my sixteenth year in baseball, but it's a good one. Kinda like a screwball...