Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nonetheless, Lyndon Johnson has already had to abandon his cherished, if unrealistic, goal of keeping the U.S. budget below $100 billion. He did so by a scant $300 million when he originally submitted his budget for the current year, thereby projecting a politically valuable image of fiscal responsibility...
Orthodox women began to picket the Reb's house, shouting "Whore-lover!" and demanding to know why their daughters were not good enough for him. Summoned before the sect's religious court, Blau refused to abandon Ruth because his vow of betrothal to her could not be broken without her consent-something she would never give. Blau also raised a canny theological argument. His sexual organs, he explained, had been injured slightly by shrapnel during the siege of Jerusalem in 1948. Yet the law (Deuteronomy 23:2) says that no one who is "crushed or maimed...
...high-crime areas." In short, criminal justice can go only so far in seeking social equality -a goal that courts alone cannot reach -and then it is time for the "deadly serious" responsibility of controlling crime. Concluded Katzenbach: "We are not so civilized that we can afford to abandon deterrence as a goal of our criminal...
...have promised to help defend this small and valiant nation. Strengthened by that promise, the people of South Viet Nam have fought for many long years. Thousands of them have died. Thousands more have been crippled and scarred by war. And we just cannot now dishonor our word, or abandon our commitment, or leave those who believed us and who trusted us to the terror and repression and murder that would follow...
...Democratic Senator Wayne Morse claimed that Johnson's Viet Nam policy was "not a consensus of our people ... it is a consensus among the State Department, Defense Department, Central Intelligence Agency and the White House staff." College professors and students cried out that the U.S. should abandon Viet Nam entirely, that Johnson was a warmonger. New York Herald Tribune Columnist Joseph Alsop complained about Lyndon's close personal scrutiny of the details of war: "The President is asking for very bad trouble by trying to act as both field marshal and top sergeant in a war halfway...