Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE--Both Freeman and Hodges will probably leave their positions. Freeman has been waiting for a year and a half to abandon his "crappy job," in the words of one reporter. Hodges, whom Johnson does not consider energetic enough to cope with the problems of compliance with the Public Accommodations section of the Civil Rights Law and the Area Redevelopment Act, will reportedly be asked to resign. Buford Ellington, ex-Governor of Tennessee and a personal friend of Johnson, may become Secretary of Agriculture, while Frank Stanton, President of CBS, seems first in line for Commerce...
This is the customary decision of most newspapers to abandon the principle of selectivity during campaigns and allot roughly equal space to the two candidates each day regardless of what they say. The practice is ignored when one candidate says something of earth-shaking importance or makes a local appearance. But for the most part, newspapers seem to regard "fairness" in a campaign as something that can be measured in inches. The standard reply to charges of journalistic partisanship is to sit down at one's back copies with a ruler and figure out that Sen. Goldwater has received...
Foreign Affairs. In foreign and defense matters, Wilson creates some uneasiness in Washington. He wants to abandon Britain's independent nuclear deterrent, wants to renegotiate the Nassau agreement, which originally promised Britain Polaris missiles. This switch might not trouble Washington. But Wilson is also known to be cool, if not downright hostile, to joining M.L.F., the multilateral nuclear force that the U.S. is pushing hard, and he is sometimes regarded as a little too eager for a détente with Communism and for various disarmament schemes. But despite the lingering left wing, Harold Wilson's Labor Party...
...Anchor scholars have had to abandon some of the King James Version's most striking images, which often stemmed from misreadings of a corrupt text. Gone from Speiser's Genesis, for example, is Joseph's coat of many colors. "It's a wonderful technicolored effect," says Speiser. "But we had to put it in mothballs. In those days everybody wore a coat of many colors. Besides, the Hebrew clearly states that he wore an ornamented tunic...
Freedom Tunnel. It was engineered by 30 volunteer workers, many of them university students, who had managed earlier to escape from East Germany. From the basement of an abandoned bakery at 97 Bernauer Strasse, in West Berlin's French sector, they dug a 448-ft. tunnel that emerged in an unused shack in the yard of an apartment house at 55 Strelitzerstrasse in East Berlin. Digging in shifts around the clock, 40 ft. underground, the men were hardly able to breathe. Again and again the tunnel threatened to cave in because of Berlin's sandy soil. Several times...