Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forces had pulled out for a three-week rest north of the Hanoi delta, while others 1) captured Dien Bien airport and garrison, 65 miles west of Nasan; 2) ambushed a detachment of Moroccans retreating from Laichau and then encircled the old Thai capital; 3) forced the French to abandon Phong Tho, 35 miles north of Laichau; 4) moved south to the borders of Laos. Giap's most serious effort was a two-division attack (20,000 men) on the flooded area around Phat Diem, only 62 miles south of Hanoi. The French replied by moving in .three mobile...
...Abandon most direct controls (notable exception: retain rent controls in really "critical" areas). ¶Establish a stand-by controls system. ¶Use indirect anti-inflation measures, such as increasing the percentage of gold (now 25%) behind Federal Reserve notes...
...armed rebellion. Cried South Carolina's Governor Jimmy Byrnes: "South Carolina will not, now nor for some years to come, mix white and colored children in our schools. If the court changes what is now the law of the land [so that we cannot] maintain segregation . . . we will abandon the public school system. To do that would be choosing the lesser of two great evils...
...reading and thus demonstrate their good faith to the Allies. After two stormy days, with the speaker's brass handbell jangling almost constantly to bring order, the house obliged. Chubby Erich Ollenhauer, successor to the late Kurt Schumacher as leader of the Socialists, angrily urged the Chancellor to abandon his "teenage enthusiasm for European unity" and start working for the interests of Germany. The Chancellor listened to all of this stonily, and seemed to take as a matter of course the handsome 50-vote majority with which his treaty proposals passed their second reading...
...postwar debates showed that he had lost none of his vitality or oratorical abandon. He made 29 speeches against the Italian peace treaty, warning Premier De Gasperi: "You will be held responsible for those humiliations, this cupidity, this servility." The old Nationalist never got used to the idea that Italy needed or could trust allies. He passionately opposed Italian membership in the Atlantic Pact...