Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smash Hit. In San Francisco, a streetcar crashed with complete abandon into a Navy shore patrol wagon, drew cheers from watching sailors...
...knack of making his speeches stick to a single issue, as sharp as a bayonet. He deployed his strength so that he could usually choose his own enemies. Usually they turned-up in the guise of black reactionaries or members of the lunatic fringe, whom he could belabor with abandon...
...Clothes. As further innovation, the Vatican last week said that the Pope had decided to abandon the usual custom of holding the consistory in private. To show that world brotherhood was both necessary and attainable, the ceremony would be held in St. Peter's. Thus on Feb. 18 spectators would see cardinals from the 19 nations-including French and German-publicly embrace in accordance with ritual and exchange the "kiss of peace...
...spilled highball, the cigaret burn, and the lamentations of teetering women who had just lost a high heel from one slipper. Shrill words would be spoken before dawn. At least one famous actor, writer or politician would get punched in the nose, and automobiles would collide with an abandon almost forgotten during the stodgy years of gas rationing. The morning-after consumption of aspirin, raw egg and Worcestershire sauce would rise again in proof of man's infinite capacity for hope...
...silence of the court could mean only one thing: guilty. On one of the two counts, "culpable inefficiency" (failure to abandon ship promptly) in the torpedoing of his ship, the U.S.S. Indianapolis, the court had acquitted Captain Charles B. McVay III, U.S.N. But the court's silence on the charge of "negligence" (in his failure to zigzag his ship) meant that on that count the court had found McVay guilty. Last week, as the Navy prepared to review its court's findings, McVay faced a bleak future...