Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...born of the Industrial Revolution, the Irishman of the Book of Kelts" one Northern Irish journalist wrote recently. The curious thing about the Ulster Protestant is that he feels neither completely Irish nor completely British. Catholic Ireland, he fears, will submerge his Protestant identity; Britain, he fears, will abandon him. Last week events merely intensified his anxieties. Complained Ulster Politician Joe Burns: "It is typical of the British government to placate their enemies to crucify their friends...
...there any things you feel so deeply for that you would abandon your novelist's stance for a Maileresque pose...
Because its resources are now much scarcer than they have been, the University will have to make choices in the years ahead to abandon some programs in order to continue others. It will almost certainly have to do this in order to continue the Staff Tuition Scholarship program. The University community has the right and should receive the information it needs to participate in these choices...
...people angered by Harvard's rigidity. With little advertising other than word of mouth, the program's enrollment jumped from 35 in the fall of 1970 to 98 this fall. Registration for the spring semester is running ahead of the fall, and soon the pottery may be forced to abandon its policy of unlimited registration because of space constraints...
...enlivens the gray Bavarian midwinter, scores of halls had been decorated with tinfoil, blinking lights, papier-mache figures of fun, and corners intentionally left dark. No fewer than seven carnival princes and princesses had been named, complete with courts and shapely girl guards. All was ready for Milnchner to abandon themselves, as they always had, to a month of drinking, swiving-judges do not consider adultery grounds for divorce during Fasching-and foolery unequaled anywhere else in Europe...