Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anders is a service brat who was born in Hong Kong, while his father was there as a Navy commander. After graduating from Annapolis, he switched to the Air Force, won his master's degree in nuclear engineering and became a flying instructor. Until he was forced to abandon it because of his time-consuming space training, Anders owned a Cessna 172 and flew it every time he got a chance. Unusually conscientious, he once won a good-driver's award after an Albuquerque policeman saw him stop his car, remove a cinder block from a crowded highway...
...American boy has at one time rolled up the sleeves of his teeshirt to look studlier as he walked downtown; that every chick has snuck up her hems in junior high school so somebody can take a good peek. America! You dumb ass stupid brutal beast! Why did you abandon us? We loved you, we really did, we might even fight in your stupid wars if you hadn't forbidden Elvis. Why didn't you let us have friends with greasy hair? Why? Why couldn't we go meet our friends at the drive-in? Why couldn...
With brutal abandon, the front-running New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders fought point for point all afternoon. Then, with 65 seconds remaining, the Jets slipped ahead 32-29. But the Raiders struck back swiftly, connecting on a 22-yd. pass play that put them within scoring range. Now there were only 50 seconds left in the game. The Oakland stadium erupted like Mauna Loa. Twenty-one million at-home fans climbed into their TV sets. And then-NBC abruptly cut away to Heidi, a two-hour dramatization of the children's classic. It was a clear case...
...back on any kind of theological or philosophical progress. So has Paul. Some Vatican officials date the increasingly negative tone of Paul's speeches from the publication two years ago of The Peasant of the Garonne, in which Maritain railed against the errors of theologians who would abandon the "perennial philosophy" for the seductive lure of existentialism or other modern "fads...
...Giants when they played the high-riding Dallas Cowboys. With a display of offensive wizardry and defensive ferocity, they scored an upset 27-21 victory over a squad that has been picked by many experts to win the N.F.L. championship. All afternoon the Giants belted the Cowboys with abandon. And as usual, the stars of the show were Quarterback Fran Tarkenton and Split End Homer Jones-the most explosive passing combination in the game today...