Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goldwater's final difficulty is that he underestimates the true conservatism of the American people, the unwillingness to abandon a program once it has been around for a while and is working fairly well. About the only "welfare" program the people have found repugnant enough in practice to repeal was prohibition...
...content of Bowles' hypothetical consensus, it follows the general line of Democratic platform and campaign, with the same virtues (concern for all the necessary things Goldwater would abandon) and faults (an eagerness to disguise the fact that public programs cost money and a corresponding failure to stress the fact that the country can and must afford this money). Bowles writes in amazingly short, terse paragraphs, and too often appears to be offering the reader an oversimplified first primer in American politics, history and economics...
Buildings and Grounds officials are enthusiastic about their brand new dump truck, acquired over the summer. This fine machine, making only four trips to the dump a day, enables B & G to abandon the old incinerator system. Instead of burning rubbish in their respective basements, House and Yard superintendents leave the trash on the street until B & G's new toy comes around and picks it up. Buildings and Grounds says this all will save large sums of money...
...future of the nation and of mankind is not total surrender versus total annihilation. This idea is either a deliberate invention to support the massive retaliation doctrine and the Cold War, or the stark formulation of helpless fear. The question before the United States today is whether to abandon all initiative in the international situation and continue to be guided by the logic of deterrence and the arms race; or to take up the initiative once again and experiment imaginatively and courageously with ways to slow down and end the arms race. We call for unilateral steps toward disarmament both...
...clubs-they all want Lodge." A Gallup poll designed to measure the degree of voter enthusiasm for each candidate gave Lodge a higher rating than Kennedy, Johnson or Nixon. So many urgent requests for Lodge to speak have poured into G.O.P. headquarters in Washington that Lodge has had to abandon his hope of keeping his weekends free during the campaign to rest and relax at his home on Massachusetts...