Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard showed lots of spirit as it upset a big Holy Cross team, 14 to 6. Crosby scored one touchdown, while a pass to Allen Fordyce accounted for the other. "The abandon with which the Crimson tossed forward passes to the winds and the success attending these passes was surprising," the CRIMSON reported. The assistant manager of the football team, Winslow Carlton '29, resigned his position in order to study, the first time anyone in good academic standing had ever done that...
...Abandon Any Idea." The excitement (see above) centered on part of what Senate Majority Leader Taft wrote about the United Nations and its role in Korea. Said he: "I believe we might as well forget the United Nations as far as the Korean war is concerned. I think we should do our best now to negotiate this truce, and if we fail, then let England and our other allies know that we are withdrawing from all further peace negotiations in Korea . . . It seems to me that from the beginning we should have insisted on a general peace negotiation with China...
...once make this present truce, no matter what we put in the agreement about further negotiations for a united Korea, it is no more likely to occur than a united Germany . . . I believe we might as well abandon any idea of working with the United Nations in the East and reserve to ourselves a completely free hand...
...Doubt." Taft was distinctly not recommending that the U.S. completely abandon the United Nations. One section of his speech was a clear, if limited, endorsement of the U.N.: "I believe in the United Nations myself . . . It does have many methods by which, through peaceful persuasion, it can deter and prevent war. It has important agencies which are concerned with the improvement of conditions throughout the world...
...letter from brother Branwell reporting "news" of one of their old make-believe characters, "the Duke of Zamorna." Jane Eyre was a reworking of the fantasies of Charlotte's childhood, says Author Lane, while sister Emily's Wuthering Heights testified to a stony desire never to abandon the world of imagination for what everyone else called the world of reality...