Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feel obliged by your atheism or agnosticism to enlighten others by persuading them to abandon their faith
According to the poll, he himself will likely tell you that, on the whole, his loss of all traditional religious faith did not substantially alter his ethical principles, nor does he feel at all obliged by his convictions to persuade the pious to abandon their beliefs. Incredibly enough, well over a third of those who either flatly reject all belief in God or else hold that there are no adequate grounds for deciding the question, nevertheless think that "on the whole, the Church stands for the best in human life," though it suffers from certain minor human shortcomings...
...commuters have been afraid that integration into the existing Houses would deprive them of gains they have made with great difficulty, and the often halfhearted nature of officials proposals has been discouraging on this account. But there is another group which is unwilling to abandon the local atmosphere of Dudley where they feel that their problems are better understood. It seems rather odd, however, to suggest that non-residents should be carefully insulated from students living at the College: someone who cannot be happy in a heterogeneous community seems rather out of place in a national college...
...Rods & Greenhorns. The boat boom has brought really only one great menace-the hot-rodder, inboard and outboard, whose feckless abandon yearly kills and maims scores of other boatmen and bathers. New federal and state laws are now tightening requirements on registration and demanding strict adherence to traffic rules. Better still is the growing organization of Coast Guard Auxiliary and Power Squadrons, which give free instruction in seamanship, successfully instill a sense of pride in new boat owners...
Holding forth from behind a table in Barnes & Noble, Feiffer autographed his books (Sick, Sick, Sick, and his latest, Passionella), speedily reproduced many of his characters on request, and generally entertained the local menagerie with his peculiar blend of a genuine inquisitive interest in humanity and a quiescent abandon with which he was endowed as a native son of the Bronx...