Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with an article in LIFE by John Foster Dulles ("certainly, he is no isolationist"), Taft pointed out that NATO guards only 500 miles of the Soviet dominion's 20,000 miles of frontier with the free world. "In fact, our leaders have become the new isolationists. They would abandon most of Europe and most of Asia to Russia, and adopt a purely defensive policy which has no hope of bringing freedom to millions behind the Iron Curtain...
...British still do not plan to abandon diplomatic recognition of Red China, though their chargé d'affaires in Peking has never been received by anyone higher than the second assistant to the Foreign Minister...
...unseasonable drought. But the full screenplay is hopelessly complicated and extremely disjointed, involving among other things a long lost son, a gambling house murder, a stampede, a dust storm, and a bull whip fight. Under these circumstances, the only way to retain your peace of mind is to abandon all attempts at following the story and take each incident as it comes...
With whistle-stop abandon, the President went on to track the dinosaur through his favorite tar pit, the Republican Both Congress. There, he said, the G.O.P. proved that it was "after the farmers," "after all wage earners," and "after organized labor." Today the Old Guard is trying "to preserve high profits for the steel companies ('I think they want a strike')," and "prevent wage increases for the steelworkers. That shows exactly where the Old Guard stands. It shows that their hearts lie with the corporations and not with the working people...
After three frustrated years under the Communists, British businesses in Red China last week decided to throw in the towel. In London the powerful China Association announced that its members would sever trade ties and abandon all their assets in Red China-holdings worth more than $840 million. Most of the 700 British nationals in China-all that is left of a British trade colony that numbered 10,000-will probably ask the Communist government for exit visas. The firms will try to sell their assets to Chinese Communist agencies, but the Foreign Office fears that it will prove...