Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Little Me wears its high-polish frivolities with a sophisticated air. The chief fun-master of this musical is Sid Caesar, who clowns his way through seven roles with imperial abandon...
...horses were running at Agua Caliente. To a tall, spare, compulsive horseplayer named Ernest Havemann, that was reason enough to abandon temporarily the mission that had brought him cross-country to Los Angeles. He caught the next plane south. He had been to the Mexican race track many times before, usually in the same noble cause: a crack at the track's 5-10 pool, a lush bale of lettuce divided among bettors who have picked the most winners in the fifth through the tenth races.* Havemann invested $96 in an array of 48 likely combinations, and kissed...
...first of these concerns the present policy's effect on the Honors program and thesis work. As the CRIMSON argued earlier this fall, "any piece of writing, especially writing based on much research, is bound to impose strains that make the writer want, whimsically or fiercely, to abandon it at some point." The traditional CLGS rule encouraged the student to stick with his thesis--his most important academic undertaking--rather than rewarding him for running...
...York might be justified. But, in fact, the union's policy is the result of a feeling that while it is apparently faced with decimation of numbers and prestige, no one is paying any attention to its plight. It is convinced that the country is willing to abandon it to the fury of the second industrial revolution, and there is almost nothing in the government's record during the last decade to contradict it. The union is acting out of desperation, not spite...
...other words, if they don't stop saying that we might abandon them, then we shall abandon them...