Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Every unit that is unable to advance must accept death rather than abandon that part of the national territory entrusted...
...Challenged candidates for the Presidency and Congress to abandon "glittering generalities and specious promises," to state "just how you would change the laws if you were in office...
...condemnation of the Soviet Union in no way implies approval of its action in Finland. Most important of the points was a fear of moral condemnation that might obscure the practical program of no aid to belligerents' beyond the strict confines of cash and carry. We will not abandon the A.S.U. because of this split because we have enjoyed together a year of successful work and considerable growth...
Harvard ski racers will abandon their hickories for the season, officially anyway, after the traditional Harvard-Dartmouth slalom this Sunday, which will be set by Walter Prager on the near-perpendicular slepes of Tuckerman's Ravine...
...sugar lobby, moved to apply the general $10,000 limit to sugar producers. Crushed, 46-23, he tried for a $50,000 limit, was crushed again, 37-27. Only argument for the huge subsidies was fuzzy : that Hawaiian & Puerto Rican producers, stripped of their fat subsidies, might get miffed, abandon the control program, ruin small domestic producers; i.e., that benefits must be paid foreign producers to persuade them to let U. S. producers exist. No one could understand this; but the Senate has always understood the sugar lobby...