Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted to "win this war . . . quickly . . . and with as little cost in lives as is possible." But it seemed to him that an equally urgent job was "completely overwhelming and smothering the Willkie-Roosevelt-Carnegie Foundation kind of leadership." He proposed action: "Let us abandon silence . . . use such weapons as are at our command . . . and strike down this thing...
...concentrated scale, either in Germany, in Italy or in the enemy-occupied countries. Wherever these centers exist or are developed, they will be destroyed and the munitions populations will be dispersed. . . . And this process will continue ceaselessly with ever-increasing weight and intensity until the German and Italian peoples abandon or destroy the monstrous tyrannies which they have incubated and reared in their midst...
...Celotex's Dahlberg is prepared to crush them with the cry: "Your rights cannot override the rights of the people!" If cities won't tear down buildings, replan streets, extend their limits, or if whole municipalities won't merge: "We must move to other fields and abandon such cities to their fate...
...different things at the same time. The C. O.ordered pay day the next day for the crew, officers, and an attached coast guard cutter ... An armed guard crew was picked up floating into port with partial pay cards .. After their latest Ready, Aim, Fire, Abandon Ship episode ... He started spreading his specimens in the gangways and tacking them on the bulkheads ... Ensign Drawers began to tighten up ... He had to pull through ... After all he had to make the next American Legion if he wanted to run for Congress...
According to regulations the 'Money List' should be the first item to be taken over the side upon the order to abandon ship . . . However the Juniors are claiming they are going to take their specimens over first . . . . What good would a money list be without the specimens to use as a guide...