Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of the "radical and ill-conceived" safety ideas include the thought that "we abandon hope of teaching drivers to avoid traffic accidents and concentrate on designing cars that will make collisions harmless." This, he said, "is a little like suggesting that we neglect good health habits in favor of reliance on miracle drugs-and on some method of compelling people to take them...
...time into the academic pitter-patter of Harvard's own Russian Research Center. But let there be no mistake; in its heart of hearts Conquest Without War is a polemicist's handbook, motivated by the kind of simple-minded hatred that gave John Birch his distinctive charm and abandon...
...Extreme conservatives claim to be the 'real' Republicans," Chapman said, "yet some of their chief exponents such as William Buckley and William Rusher (National Review editor and publisher, respectively) abandon the Republicans when their views are defeated within the party framework...
...Waste. Nobody swings for the fence with more abandon than husky (6 ft., 200 Ibs.) Roger Maris: more than one-third of his hits are homers. Slow rounding into shape last spring, Maris did not hit his first home run until the Yankees' tenth game. But then he began hitting them in bunches: nine in 13 games in May, 15 in June. When he reached 50 on Aug. 22-with 38 games still to play-Maris became the biggest news in baseball. New York tabloids offered cash prizes for predictions of which days Maris would hit a homer...
Although the University has been forced to abandon the Gulf project, Wiggins affirmed that officials are still searching for a site near the Square for the proposed garage. Indicating that a more convenient location may soon be available, he denied reports that the University has considered building the structure on land across the river near the Business School...