Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...position to talk freely. He did. Wedemeyer tossed a cord of fresh logs on to the dying bonfire of the MacArthur controversy, bluntly criticized not only Dean Acheson but also his own old friend, George Catlett Marshall. And he had a startling plan for dealing with world Communism: abandon the Korean campaign and come to an open break with the U.S.S.R...
...Class of '51 begins several days of calculated abandon tonight with a Senior Spread, a formal dance, and a midnight dance in the courtyard of Eliot House. The festivities will begin at 10 p. m. and will carry on until...
...dusk approached and the Chinese did not let up, Hawkins from his plane ordered the battalion to strip and abandon the two tanks that were still stuck, and start back. As the column headed south, Chinese jumped out of foxholes and attacked the U.S. armor on foot. Some 30 Chinese were killed...
Tailored News. The big changeover was not entirely painless. Wire-service editors had to abandon such favorite interruptions as flashes, bulletins and new leads, except for major news breaks. They had to cut down long, rambling stories from New York and Washington to a size convenient for the cramped space of small papers. For their part, participating publishers had to use the same sizes of body type so the A.P.'s and U.P.'s spacing would fit all columns. And they had to jettison their favorite eccentricities of style, accept wire-service punctuation, capitalization and word division...
...offensive had been a major defeat for Ho Chi Minh. On the Red radio, he told his troops that they must now abandon open warfare and go back to their former guerrilla tactics. Said Ho's Commander in Chief General Vo Nguyen Giap: "Our objective is not to take Haiphong or Hanoi, but to start a war of attrition...