Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Socialist C.C.F. Leader Major James Coldwell emphatically agreed. Said he: "The genius of the British Commonwealth is its recognition of basic unity in diversity. Lord Halifax proposes that we abandon this historic principle. Such rigidity would destroy the Commonwealth...
Scuttlebutt is a form of verbal holiday with which many military establishments are afflicted. It is in all cases transmitted by the "O" (for oral) method, and is usually bruited about with a most exhilirating abandon...
...main requirements for collapsing Germany quickly and with small loss of life is to cause the defection of her satellites. Her satellites will abandon her only when their expectation of Germany's early defeat exceeds their fear of German retaliation. The moves of the Allied forces as well as the efforts of Allied propagandists have been designed to speed that expectation-to produce it at an early date...
...Generous and mentally at ease: "He cultivates his conduct without cease and in his private life he does not abandon himself. When he is successful, he does not depart from the truth. In his personal manners he values living in peace and harmony with others. . . . He admires those cleverer than himself and is generous toward the masses and is flexible in principle...
...among unaccustomed delights. For many more it was plain tragedy; starvation was an ever-present possibility. The bank clerk, fingering his last western suit and wondering how many thousands of Chinese dollars he could get for it, was little better off than the university professor wondering whether he should abandon his career, with its paltry fixed salary, for a bank clerk's job where at least there was some attempt to hoist wages as the cost of living soared. In this atmosphere, U.S. Army men in China soon lost all sense of normal value. It is no novelty...