Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baron Hugo's band will fill the air with sweet, and Chloe Merimee, the noted Croole mystic astrologer, has been persuaded to abandon her retreat in the heart of old New Orleans to lend atmosphere to the proceedings...
...threat of a Nazi Army moving through France and Spain to cork up Gibraltar and garrison northwest Africa was serious indeed to the British. If such a campaign succeeded, the British would practically have to abandon the western Mediterranean and Germany would have another base for the Battle of the Atlantic, as well as a steppingstone on the route to South America via Dakar...
...moods: for dreamy music, "my eyes look far away and my jaw drops"; for speedier work, "I look like a fielder trying to catch a fly ball with the sun in his eyes." The No. 3 expression, unclassifiable, was for moments of hair-tossing, gum-chomping abandon, during which Drummer Krupa yelled over & over (he said): "Lyonnaise potatoes and some pork chops...
...same tactics of cross fire as had proved so deadly against the Italians in the Pindus Mountains. But the fight was vain: the Nazi break-through in the Vardar Valley, and the prong which had then turned eastward towards Salonika, threatened the troops' rear. It became necessary to abandon Salonika...
...Charles chose to abandon some of his autocratic power might have remained a mystery if Sir Charles's family troubles were not so well known. It takes a strong hand to govern Sarawak's tough, native populace and, like many a European dynasty, the Brookes have waxed no stronger as their line grew old. Sir Charles sired three daughters, no son to follow him as Sarawak's Tuan Muda (Crown Prince...