Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the Army has rejected the offer of the Flying Club to assist in hunting submarines, patroling the coast, and convoying ships into Boston along with the Civil Air Patrol, the Club has been forced to abandon its activities for the duration, secretary H.W. Ford King '44, announced yesterday...
...must call upon the leaders of nations to abandon the fiendishly inspired slaughter. ... We condemn the outcome which wicked and designing men are now planning, namely: the world-wide establishment and perpetuation of some, form of communism on the one side, or some form of nazism or fascism on the other. ... We call upon the statesmen of the world to ... bring this war to an end honorable and just...
...best thing in it is Victor Mature's exuberant portrayal of a heavyweight champion, a character compounded largely to Max Bear and Mature himself, with Saroyanish overtones. He hides buzzers in his palms when shaking hands, wears zoot suits, and is in general a card. Parodying himself with boyish abandon, Mature seems much more at home than in such heavy stuff as "One Million B.C." The main function of his co-star in the proceedings, Betty Grable, is, as always, to exude femininity. She does this unremittingly and well...
...Mayor has not responded in kind. Suspicious of the press from the first, he nonetheless got along well enough with them for a while. Then Butch decided to abandon regular press conferences. The occupants of "Room 9" (City Hall pressroom) took that in stride and kept the copy rolling. He got mad at a reporter, tried and failed to persuade his publisher to fire him. Warier after that, Room Niners still kept up the coverage...
...fourth installment at 35. "This is the life," said he. "I like my work very much. I'm just another fellow in the Navy now." Laura Mae Corrigan, 60, wealthy U.S. expatriate who became known as "the American Angel" for her war relief in France, finally had to abandon her work for lack of funds. A Cleveland steelmaker's widow who had been one of London's most spectacular hostesses for more than two decades, she plunged into the job of helping feed, clothe, doctor, and amuse soldiers and war prisoners in France three years ago, sent...