Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...welder's torch set it afire. Lieut. Milano tried to plug the flow, then yelled for workmen to call the Navy Yard fire department. Moments later he peered through a cable hole toward the bomb elevator and "saw orange." He ordered the word passed to all hands to abandon ship...
...Gaulle had sailed as safely through the political storms as through the rain and hail of Algerian weather-though he had stayed out of Algeria's biggest cities. In Paris, his right-wing opponents in the Assembly were reduced to hand-wringing pleas (''the motherland cannot abandon its sons!"). There were only three leaders with the dynamism to rally the European extremists of Algiers-General Raoul Sa-lan, fiery Pierre Lagaillarde and Jacques Soustelle. once both a Cabinet member and close friend of De Gaulle. Not one of them was in either Algeria or France. General Salan...
...thinking along Norstad's lines. In a book review written for the Satur day Re-view last September, Kennedy declared, "We must think through afresh the military mission of NATO." In the book before him, British Military Expert B. H. Liddell Hart argued that European nations perhaps should abandon atomic weapons and concentrate on conventional forces, leaving the U.S. the task of deterring Soviet atomic strength. Kennedy was convinced that European nations would likely prefer another solution: "Our partners may wish to create a NATO deterrent, supplementary to our own, under a NATO nuclear treaty." That is Norstad...
...splendid points of the program, the stab at Congress that will drain its coffers painfully dry, the shaft directed at sometime patriots who in return for a sacrifice to their country now demand a neutralizing and unnecessary sacrifice, these are lost in the superficial hilarity of the thoughtless abandon of youth...
...Ranked right alongside Bellino: Tom Mason, 21, Tulane; 6 ft. 1 in., 195 Ibs. Although U.P.I, and A.P. relegated Mason to their third-team All-America, many pros call him the nation's finest back: "He's a slashing runner with great speed, and he hits with abandon." Also high on the pros' lists are Syracuse Junior Ernie Davis ("He's another Jimmy Brown"), Washington State's Keith Lincoln ("One of the real triple threats in the game"), and New Mexico State's Pervis Atkins, drafted last year by Los Angeles...