Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...essential services-fire-fighting equipment, water supply, sewers, light, even housing -is knocked out, it may be able to pull itself together. If three-quarters, for example, is destroyed, the town may no longer be able to fight fires and repeated bombing may force the population to abandon home and work...
...must abandon the idea that seniority means quality. We have already found it necessary to issue many orders and directives to govern the conduct of industry and the public. We shall undoubtedly find it necessary to issue many more--to present common standards of conduct for the guidance of all concerned...
...hours it was all over. The Langley' s crew heard the order: "Abandon ship." They left their dead and swarmed over the side, to be picked up by the faithful destroyers...
...Chinese had no choice but to abandon the town. Across brushlands and rice paddies, they rushed from the sheltering trees and houses of Toungoo. Jap artillery fired pointblank. The Chinese scattered, broke through to the Sittang River, waded and swam it, under constant fire. They took their losses, but they won through to the main Chinese forces in the north. For every dead Chinese on the fields and hills around Toungoo, they left four dead Japs...
...Marne stating that his center, his right, and his left were in terrible shape, that the situation was excellent, and that he was attacking. He forgets, it would appear, that the situation was excellent only because an active defense had lured the Germans on and tempted them to abandon partially the Schlieffen plan. When he cites the Battle of Marathon he forgets that it is the classic example of the "double envelopment," a military term meaning that you let the enemy dig his own grave and then shovel him in. One cannot discard the defense as valueless with a scoff...