Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lally said that only a small percentage of the polls mailed out last week had been received by his committee and pointed out that unless a large number of men indicate their willingness to use the Soldiers Field parking lot as a refuge from Cambridge police, the University will abandon the plan...
...undergraduates decide to take a chance on the mercy of the city of Cambridge and turn down the Corporation's parking lot as too inconvenient or too expensive, they will be doing themselves and their fellow automobilists a great disservice. For the University would be only too willing to abandon the lot in the face of apparent apathy towards its use, and the time will come when undergraduates will be only too glad...
...kind of approach, he considers, is now as outdated as the iron men. His pep talks are delivered in midweek. He boils down the basic difference between offense and defense to 13 words: "On offense, it's poise, finesse, determination. On defense, it's fury, fight, utter abandon." He gives his "offense unit" one kind of indoctrination, his "defense unit" the other. Crisler even has a "point-after-touchdown" unit-including a specialist place-kicker and seven of the biggest linemen on the squad...
...Additional long-term grants running close to $1 billion to bolster China's economy; otherwise the disintegration of China might become so rapid that the U.S. would have to abandon that political beachhead in Asia...
...press conference given yesterday at the Hotel Somerset, Wallace told reporters that he would not abandon the Democratic Party unless he became convinced that the party's foreign policy was leading towards...