Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Abandon Straw Vote...
Last week, Rabun paid a Thanksgiving Day call on Parishioner Talmadge, who has long played footie with the K.K.K. Reported the new pastor: "He didn't agree with me, but he didn't tell me anything to make me abandon my principles. I realize I am in hot water, but I'm prepared...
...what had provoked the shot, but the New York Times solemnly reported that the two Ukrainians were "large enough to be mistaken for detectives"; that, of course, explained it. Other aspects of the shooting might seem perfectly natural to New Yorkers, but inexplicable to Europeans, who can never quite abandon their ingrained belief that the U.S. scene consists largely of Indian massacres and gang battles. Could the law-respecting British, for instance, understand why two women customers who had seen the shooting failed to come forward until the police laboriously sought them...
...reigning patriarch of the Adams clan, these reminders of the past were not so much landmarks as part & parcel of daily life. Like J. P. Marquand's George Apley, he was neither insensible to change, nor intolerant of it. But nothing had ever moved him to abandon the manners & morals of his New England ancestors-who include two Presidents (John and John Quincy), a famous ambassador (Charles Francis I), authors (Henry and Brooks), bankers, lawyers and scholars...
Almost everywhere, from Germany to China, Russia and its friends had lost the ball. Secretary Byrnes's great September speech at Stuttgart had clearly announced U.S. determination not to abandon Europe and to work out a constructive solution for Germany. Communist defeat in the Berlin elections was followed last week by a new Russian policy which clearly placed the urgent needs of Russia's people above thwarted external ambitions. That the Russian effort to drive a wedge between the U.S. and Britain had also failed was attested by the repudiation of American neo-isolationists of the Wallace school...