Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pathological. But, like a psychic distorting mirror, they reflect reality-well-locked in the subconscious though it may be. Little boys bite little girls; men hear seals barking in the middle of the night; shapeless women spring into rooms crying, "I come from haunts of coot and hern." Doctors abandon restraint ("You're not my patient, you're my meat, Mrs. Quist...
...members, and a life cycle much like that of a mammal. In a young clone, cells multiply rapidly but are unable to conjugate. Following youth comes an adolescent period of slight conjugal activity and less multiplication. At maturity, sexual reactions are strongly marked and the individuals conjugate with abandon, until at last a period of decline sets in, leading eventually to death. Frequently, in such an old clone, doughty individuals who attempt conjugation expire...
...Burma, five Japanese divisions had been destroyed, but five remained. They were all but cut off, and likely to be left for their nuisance value. In the rest of Southeast Asia were at least five more Jap divisions, plus brigades of garrison troops. The enemy was not ready to abandon Southeast Asia. In China he was busy tearing up spur lines to get ties and rails for completing the overland route to Indo-China. The only purpose of this line, if it is ever opened, would be to drag out resistance in the vast peninsula...
...meeting now had little meaning so long as the U.S. continued to label all political problems: "Do Not Open Until Peace." The news of Poland and Greece was that Britain and Russia each had specific, immediate, well-planned aims in Europe. It was high time for the U.S. to abandon finger-shaking at what it did not like about the ideas of other nations, and to come up with some...
...middleweight final, between French Sailor Marcel Cerdan and Technical Sergeant Ralph Burnley of Philadelphia, a Negro, stole last week's" show. Both were pros before they went into the service. The Negro, who is crew chief of a P-51 fighter group, ploughed into the Frenchman with abandon, took Round One. Cerdan's right scored three skull-jarring hits in Round Two, floored the Philadelphian three times for a count of nine. Cerdan took the title on a technical K.O. at the bell...