Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposal to turn the area around Cambridge Common into a "historic district" may force the Graduate School of Education to abandon an extensive building program on land along Appian Way (across from Longfellow Hall) for which it recently paid more than $1 million...
that the result was often confusion. But last year the agency decided to concentrate on a few main themes. Among them : the U.S. will not abandon West Berlin; the U.S. wants a workable nuclear test ban; an effective U.N. is indispensable to the security of small nations...
...landing at Inchon. Then the Chinese Communists came swarming across the Yalu, and once again, the marines handed the toughest job to Puller. He was put in command of the rear guard that was to cover the marines' retreat in subzero weather from the Chosin reservoir. Ordered to abandon equipment and vehicles, Puller not only kept everything he had but collected many trucks that the Army had abandoned along the way. He loaded the wounded into trucks and Jeeps, strapped frozen bodies on bumpers and hoods, and set out to fight his way to safety through the encircling hordes...
...have endeavored for the past 14 years to negotiate with Portugal," he declared, but the Portuguese had resolutely refused to abandon their Indian colonies. Nehru also cited three U.N. resolutions declaring Goa a non-self-governing colony. Portugal had ignored even these less revolutionary resolutions, he said...
Princeton took the lead in the opening seconds of the first half, and never relinquished it. Mid-way through the period, when the Tigers led by ten points, Crimson coach Floyd Wilson decided to abandon the zone defense he used to start the game, and switched back to the traditional...