Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...messenger that the Nambas would obey as always the Prince Regent's will. They would unbar their gates, allow their children to romp once more in the sunshine. They would resume the normal lives of loyal Japanese. In token of their entire release from all humiliation, they would abandon the irredeemably besmirched name of Namba, assume that of Kurokawa...
Perhaps Senator Watson and farm-allies had been too frisky. It appeared that the President had skillfully cast the responsibility for farm legislation back on Congress, with the result that farm-champions might be forced to abandon their heroic role and take what modicum of farm relief the Administration was willing to approve...
...withdrew the treaty. He sent out a commissioner, who hauled down the U. S. flag and demanded the restoration of the Queen if she would promise good behavior. Across 2,000 miles of water and 3,000 miles of land, President Dole faced President Cleveland and refused to abandon Hawaiian democracy to any king or queen. When McKinley was inaugurated in 1897, a new treaty of annexation was drawn and ratified. Sanford B. Dole, the President, became Sanford B. Dole, the Territorial Governor?and so he ruled for six years longer...
...There are several dark spots on the picture I have tried to draw. We do not know what led the Mayas to abandon their great cities in the south and move northward. The exhaustion of the cultivable land may have been one of the reasons. We are also ignorant as to the events which led up to the fall of this civilization about 1450. Civil war, the injurious effects of the presence of foreigners and in all probability epidemics of yellow fever were contributory...
General Lu Chunglin, commander of the Feng troops, thereupon tried the old trick of offering to share Peking with Wu, if the latter would abandon Chang. The week passed while these ticklish negotiations were in progress. Late despatches reported that Wu had refused to listen to Lu; and that the latter, having given up hope of holding Peking, was rapidly withdrawing all the Feng armies to their great northern base, Kalgan...