Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shortly after Captain Zarbis gave the order to abandon ship, the last mayday message was flashed: "S O S from Lakonia. Last time. I cannot stay any more in the wireless cabin. We are leaving the ship. Please help immediately...
...single row of stitches to close the slit in the pylorus, reducing the risk of a later shutdown. Other surgeons are combining the Weinberg method with the tying-off of blood vessels, especially for bleeding ulcers. Minnesota's Surgeon Owen H. Wangensteen is trying to make fellow surgeons abandon the knife for nearly all ulcer patients and freeze the stomach instead, a procedure that is hotly debated (TIME...
There is always a possibility that he is telling the truth--that he believes there can be no Common Market without common tariffs. But the lesson of his past actions and statements undercuts this supposition. If France were to abandon the EEC, it would lose its control over the other five members and accept solitude instead. Such isolation seems irreconcilable with de Gaulle's announced hope of an independent Europe, led by France and Germany, acting as a buffer between East and West...
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's decision to abandon the Dyna-Soar space glider project offers an encouraging sign of budgetary restraint in the American space program. The Dyna-Soar project, which was expected to cost more than $1 billion, would have contributed little to U.S. military capability or scientific understanding of space. Since the Pentagon had already spent nearly $400 million on Dyna-Soar, its apparent determination to halt further extravagance on a program with limited potential is surprising and welcome...
...Camp Tamiment in the Poconos, Neil and Danny Simon wrote a revue each week for two seasons, and for the first time reveled in the feel of live audiences. Danny soon took off for Hollywood. But Doc stayed behind, bitten by those immediate theatrical laughs. Too security-minded to abandon TV, he went on writing for it-some 40 episodes of Sergeant Bilko, a year and a half with Garry Moore. But he used his nights and weekends to write Come Blow Your Horn. Then, with $250,000 rolling in from Hollywood for the movie rights to Blow Your Horn...