Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation but to engage in this war." Nevertheless, Presbyterians are still officially committed to "pray for and work for a righteous victory." The Presbyterians acknowledged that the U.S. was not entirely guiltless ("Our own hands are not clean, nor our own hearts without sin"), called on the U.S. to abandon isolationism forever and accept "her rightful share of the responsibility for building a world order," and declared that "our nation must be prepared . . . even at heavy sacrifice ... to enter a world society whose goal is a sovereign good which transcends national sovereignty...
Yale is expected to abandon intercollegiate rowing for the duration...
...U.S.S. Marblehead, light cruiser often claimed sunk . . . was bombed to hell and brought out of it by a crew that doesn't know the meaning of the word abandon. Thus the Navy last week began a long delayed tale of heroism about the Battle of Java...
...Commander Elmer P. Abernethy, captain of the Navy oiler Pecos, who ordered his crew to abandon ship in the Battle of Java, then manned a machine gun on the bridge and fought off Jap planes strafing his escaping...
...potential U.S. war weapons, none has been more completely orphaned than the profit motive. For fear it might be confused with its bastard cousin, profiteering, neither business nor Government has cared (or dared) stand up for it. Last week the House Ways & Means Committee prepared to abandon the orphan for the duration, reported favorably on a 94% excess-profits tax. For corporations in the highest bracket that means that every extra dollar of cost will actually cost only...