Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formal, orderly vote was taken on Reimann's motion to abandon the assembly; all voted against him, except his one fellow Communist. Christian Democratic Leader Konrad Adenauer, Cologne's ex-mayor and one of Germany's most respected public figures, took over as chairman. Said he: "A start must be made so that Germany can earn a place among the free nations of the world...
...gist: the Western powers agreed to abandon the use in Berlin of their Western German money. Russian Zone money under four-power control would be used in Berlin...
Then the Atomic Energy Commission (which took over from Manhattan District) yanked the foundation from under the Daniels pile. Practical work on a $10-20 million power plant was premature, it said. The wise course was to abandon a frontal assault on the problem and switch to a low-priority program of cautious, long-range experimentation...
...Shelton and Birger gangs, roaming through bloody Williamson County in armored cars, blazed away at each other on sight, killed mayors and cops with abandon. But they did not annihilate each other. Birger was convicted of murder and hanged...
Whittemore will carry the modernization north to New England. One of the issues in the fight for control of the New Haven was Palmer's intention to abandon the money-losing (over $3,000,000 last year) Old Colony branch road from Boston to Cape Cod. Whittemore hopes not only to retain the Old Colony line, but to make it pay by bringing its equipment up to the road's new standards...