Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...land. My father would hate to leave our village and breathe the foul air of Bombay. I, my wife and five children are sharing a one-room apartment with another couple with three children. How can I accommodate my father? But I must bring him down. I cannot abandon him to Pakistan...
Parisian circus menageries, "after wartime dispersal throughout occupied Europe, are back in slightly thinner, but no less entertaining, form." And for the tired businessman from Kankakee, the famed beauties at the Folies Bergère "will be acting with even more abandon now that warm weather is here. Last winter their nude bodies were often blue with cold, and electricians had to work overtime devising lights that would give the proper hue to the frigid form divine...
...editor of the New York Times. Last week he turned up in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, to get an honorary law degree from his alma mater, St. Francis Xavier University. Said he: mass Canadian emigration to the U.S. should cease because in the atomic age "it may be necessary to abandon [the British] Isles and move the center of the British Empire to Canada. What remains of the British Empire [needs] reorganization and regeneration, and in both of these Canada might have to take the lead...
That kind of economic recovery could be contagious. Last week Washington heard that some of George Marshall's planners were even thinking of a "Continental Plan," under which the U.S. would make big capital advances to groups of nations which were willing to abandon economic warfare and work together for the reconstruction of Europe. There was even a chance, Washington optimists thought, that some of the nations behind the Iron Curtain would find their loyalties strained if Western Europe as a whole began to produce as it could...
...operation selections are poorly played and largely omitted, but those who go for other things (such as Viviane Romance) will not be downcast. Playing the title role, the smolders through almost every scene and in places performs very well (or very badly, depending on your moral inclinations.) Her emotional abandon and her variety of facial expressions make the captions largely unnecessary, and the translation are quite idiomatic, but at the times when captions were essential for unscrambling French blasphemy or innuendo, they were succinctly reduced to "! ! !" Expressive, but not very lucid...