Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...communications system announced: 'Prepare to abandon ship. May God be with...
Despite recent rumors, the Ski Club probably will not abandon its schedule for winter ski events because...
Vern Miller, who was scheduled to referee a charity wrestling match for British War Relief this evening in Mechanics Building in Boston, has decided to abandon the plan because he fears that his amateur standing might be endangered...
That she is not prepared, however, to abandon southward expansion, Lieut. Rianburo Ando, minister without port folio, revealed last night in predicting Japan will try to cut China's Burma Road and move into the Netherlands East Indies...
Last week thunderheads were gathering all over Tommy Hart's Orient. U.S. Marines were ordered to abandon Shanghai, other Chinese stations-lest they be massacred when war came (see p. 29). Australian troops swarmed into Singapore and Canadian troops into Hong Kong in preparation for new Japanese aggression. And at bases from Sydney to Manila, British, Dutch and U.S. ships prepared for action. Already U.S. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox had trumpeted: "The hour of decision is here." Tommy Hart was the man for that hour...