Word: abandon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week, rushing up & down a 110-yard field at Annapolis with rough & tumble abandon, the men of Army and Navy were on the warpath again. Object of the game: to hurl a 5-oz. India rubber ball into a 6-ft.-square net, using a webbed hickory stick as a combination scoop and sling. If a member of one of the ten-man teams happened to clobber a rival with a stick, or send him sprawling on his face, it was all part of the game. The stakes of honor were considerable, involving not only the traditional Army-Navy...
Last week Humphrey temporarily abandoned his hope of floating new longer-term issues. For $4.9 billion worth of refinancing required for June, he resorted to one-year certificates. But he did not abandon his policy of higher interest. The certificates were offered at 2 5/8%, the highest short-term Treasury rate in 20 years...
...cost of the dinner is only 95 cents per couple, the rest being subsidized by the Senior Class Committee. In view of the other financial burdens the committee would have to shoulder if a special dance had been planned, it was decided to abandon plans for an elaborate Spring Weekend, as in former years, and to concentrate on Class Week, preceding graduation...
...improvement, but still only about a quarter of what Britain should have as leader and banker of the sterling area). Now came a reward: H.M.'s government was about to add two ounces a week to the Briton's sugar ration, and soon would be able to abandon sugar rationing entirely. Rab Butler accepted the pleased outcries with one of his rare smiles...
...followers. Moreover, a number of social reforms--in housing, power, and health--have to stew while a defense establishment is kept up. But dollar for dollar it is worth it. For the temporary relief it would give them from anxicty and taxation, America and the West cannot afford to abandon the carefully planned policy of strength that is still the best hope for real peace...