Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After Hoover's death last spring, Acting Director L. Patrick Gray decided to abandon the men-only policy. Last week two women were accepted for the FBI's special-agent training program - Susan Lynn Roley, 25, a former Marine Corps lieutenant, and Joanne...
...boat with a line and went over the side. The water was intensely cold. It was blowing Force 8 [gale winds of up to 40 knots], and the waves were about 12 ft. high. But it had to be done. I had either to repair the boat or abandon the race...
...blond locks that gave Canadian Bobby Hull the nickname of "Golden Jet" shortly after he started playing hockey for the Chicago Black Hawks 15 years ago. But 33-year-old Bobby is more golden than he ever was-the new World Hockey Association has just signed him to abandon Chicago and become a player-coach for the Winnipeg Jets for a staggering $2.75 million over the next ten years, including an immediate cash bonus of $1 million. The W.H.A., which calls the deal the fattest contract ever signed by a professional athlete, hopes that the superstar left-wing will give...
...number of other educators agree that there is little evidence of lasting benefits from early schooling, but they would not abandon it altogether. Says Psychologist David Elkind of the University of Rochester: "A lot of parents are being sold a bill of goods, but the Moores go to an extreme. If learning is geared to the pace of a child's development, it can be beneficial." Psychologist Earl Schaefer of the University of North Carolina's School of Public Health is also wary of saying that the home alone is the best environment. But, like the Moores...
...leading Democrat took this unhappy inventory last week: No one can block McGovern's nomination, and if McGovern is nominated, he cannot win in November. His only chance would be to abandon the South and Border states, shift his positions to regain the moderate, middle-ground Democrats and hope somehow for a sweep through the Eastern industrial states-Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania-plus Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and California...