Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...luck to miss the explanatory preface, it could be any one of a number of things, from a perverse drawing room comedy to an analytical discussion of illusion and reality. For, unlike Shaw's earlier work, Heartbreak House is not a well-made, coherent play. With a gay abandon reminiscent of Chekhov, the characters wander on and off stage, chattering seeming irrelevancies (which are resolved in the final act when the allegory becomes clear), but never contributing to the development of the plot...
...This nation is still in deadly peril. We have an Army confronting the enemy in the field. We have troops and bases at vital points overseas . . . Until the Kremlin shows by deeds that it is willing to abandon its aggressive designs, we must prepare to prevent disaster. This may be an election year, but the Kremlin won't take a vacation simply because of the political situation. If we weaken, if we fall back, the Kremlin will see a chance to move in. There's only one real language they understand...
...most vital and dramatic switch of the evening came when California decided at the last moment to abandon Warren and throw 66 of their 70 votes to Elseenhower. This put like over the see mark and gave him the victory...
Four years ago, we were told that the adoption of compulsory subscription would enable the News to be a better paper by helping it to financial security. The experience of the past four years has shown this to be untrue, so why not abandon the compulsory subscription and make the News a better paper by making it constantly seek the approval of its readers? Ruth Joseph...
Soon the military will abandon the No. 1 symbol of occupation, the big Dai Ichi insurance building across from the Imperial Palace, and move to the suburb of Ichigaya, renamed Pershing Heights. SCAP General Matthew Ridgway will have to move out of the U.S. Embassy to make room for new Ambassador Robert Murphy-but he will go to even more elaborate quarters, set aside by the Japanese government for the general, his pretty wife and three-year-old son. It is the baronial eight-acre estate of the late Marquis Toshitatsu Maeda, which boasts a baroque, three-story mansion...