Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faculty committee meets today to give or withhold approval of Project Jarba. If (as is most unlikely) Jordan agrees to abandon unreservedly its offensive thesis that all American Jews are agents of Israel, Project Jarba should go through. If (as it possible) Jordan admits Jews but indicates that they will be in physical danger, the Committee might well delay decision until it has the Committee might well delay decision until it has time to weigh the evidence and consult legal advice. If (as is very likely) Jordan refuses to waive its ban on Jews, the Committee has no choice...
Tocsin's march won't urge the government to abandon its defense program, but rather will suggest to the American public that the price of the Arms Race is not simply the collective fear of a nation or the $47 billion military budget, but a distorted political atmosphere, shelters instead of hospitals, jets instead of schools, military spending instead of research and scholarship stipends, a right to strike that is shrinking in the name of national defense, and a thousand and one loyalty oaths for students, entertainers, engineers, teachers, and tenants living in federal housing. Since it must meet...
Said Stevenson: "The issue we face is, among other things, whether we intend to abandon the Charter requirement that all United Nations members must be peace-loving . . . What an invitation to aggression the Soviet proposal would be-and what a grievous blow to the good name of the United Nations...
Sixty-five years after William Jennings Bryan thundered his famous war cry, "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold," John F. Kennedy finally severed the Democratic Party's emotional ties to silver. Moving to abandon F.D.R.'s 1933 silver-support program. Kennedy last week ordered the Treasury to stop its sales of stockpiled silver at an arbitrary 91? an ounce. Simultaneously, the President opened a drive to abolish the practice of backing U.S. currency with silver as well as gold, which was adopted in the early days of the Republic...
...Five-Day Lover. France's Philippe (The Lore Game) de Broca has produced a minor comic mattresspiece in which hero (Jean-Pierre Cassel) and heroine (Jean Seberg) tear up the sheets with hilarious abandon; but then at the last minute, the director figuratively draws the sheets over the lovers' faces-the contemporary bedroom, he seems to be saying, is a morgue...