Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Candidates for the 1952 Crimson varsity football team, over 100 strong, assembled at the Varsity Club last night to hear Coach Lloyd Jordan explain adjustments to be made for the coming season, in view of the Ivy Group decision to abandon spring practice...
...foreign policy, some Republicans want "to pull out of Korea, and to abandon Europe and to let the United Nations go to smash." Other Republicans want to begin dropping atomic bombs. The Democrats, on the other hand, are against Communism and in favor of peace...
...code of a half-forgotten 400-of that fortlike social world which existed in New York when sleek carriage horses still clopped along Fifth Avenue, when her "Uncle Ted" was President, and when World War I had yet to create the disconcerting erosions of the speakeasy age. When she abandoned that world she did not abandon its ways. Its aristocratic accents, its manners, its almost arrogant denial of ostentation, its odd blindnesses-even, it seemed, a lady's instinctive feeling that feminine candor would not be betrayed-all went with her to the union hall, the youth forum...
...Recalling the first formulation of agricultural unions in the Po valley, it is a sharp, artistic portrait of the worker and his overlord. Each wrestles with the other to retain his inherited rights; yet it is clear that both are being beaten by rapid industrialization which forces everyone to abandon the traditional methods in order to survive. For two thirds of the movie each faction moves nearer and nearer to the inevitable clash. But, unaccountably, just at the point of pitched battle the cameras leave their social drama in the dust of a town square and turn their lens...
European artisans, merchants, and financeers still look forward to the summer influx of American tourists, but no longer with the wild abandon of the never-never days. With the rising percentage of students in the tourist crowd, the innocents abroad are becoming discriminate as to where they'll lose their innocence, and in what manner...