Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though shaken, Heath and the other Tory leaders refused to abandon the bill. Prospects now are that the impending general election will not be held until the last possible moment in the fall, not only to give Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home the maximum national exposure but to allow the new breach in the party to heal...
...March 3, Malcolm X severed his ties with Elijah Muhammad's Black Muslim movement to form his own political organization. He said that he would work to encourage Negroes to abandon non-violent tactics for active measures of self-defense against whites throughout the country. In one instance, he called upon Negroes to carry fire-arms for use in emergency situations...
Stone criticized the U.S. for the "semi-concentration camps that the official myth labels strategic hamlets." He warned that the U.S. would be wise to abandon its policy of "immobilization," and added, "we tend to forget the human element of suffering. This can only lead to our own moral imbecility and deterioration...
Practical Education. Navasky was a Yale law student in 1957, when Monocle was born. The first issue sold briskly on campus, encouraging the fledgling editor to abandon the law and move to New York. Since then, Navasky has had a practical education in the hazards of publishing. One prospectus, he says, was printed on paper stolen from another magazine. Monocle has gone begging three times, with growing effect. Last year it raised $75,000 from such unlikely sources as a Manhattan banker, a provident Harvard professor and Mrs. Marshall Field...
...very lives are at stake; some nights, wanting inspiration, all four sink without a bubble. But it is part of Monk's mystique never to fire anyone. He just waits, hoping to teach, trusting that a man who cannot learn will eventually sense the master's indifference and discreetly abandon ship...