Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both the sincerity of America's war effort and of our intent to abandon isolationism will be tested by the November Congressional elections, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt stated before approximately 100 students in Winthrop House yesterday at a closed meeting of the Harvard Council On Post-War Problems...
...About two days later, they decided to abandon Burma and we started off with General Stilwell's crowd. We drove about 150 miles west in the trucks and jeeps and then had to abandon them one by one if they got stalled even for a few moments. We were ordered to save out only what each one thought he could carry up the Chin Hills and abandon the trucks. I knew we would have to take care of all the sick in the company of 105 who followed General Stilwell out, so I ordered each nurse to carry some...
...Abandon ship!" Before they slid overside into the sea, to be picked up by destroyers and cruisers, all the men lined their shoes in orderly rows on the flight deck. As Captain Sherman followed the last of his crew overboard, another explosion shook the ship. A little later, lest she fall into Jap hands or endanger other ships, a U.S. destroyer torpedoed the Lexington's flaming hulk. "That," said Admiral Sherman, "was the end of the Lexington...
...sign of immaturity. If it is boyish to believe that a human being should live free, then I'll gladly arrest my development and let the rest of the world grow up. ... I believe in freedom with the same burning delight, the same faith, the same intense abandon which attended its birth on this continent more than a century and a half ago. I am writing my declaration rapidly, much as though I were shaving to catch a train. Events abroad give a man a feeling of being pressed for time...
There is no reason, he declared, to fear a post-war depression. "The war will operate like a purge," by compelling the U.S. to abandon the idea of restricted production that created want in the midst of plenty during the days of depression. It will make capitalism work, and "after the war we will establish an economy of abundance with a minimum of government regulation and control...