Word: abandoned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reconciliation as only half begun, and he has a point. The Bundestag, where his party has only a slim majority, has not yet ratified the nonaggression pacts with Warsaw and Moscow. Franz Josef Strauss, a power in the opposition Bavarian Christian Social Union, urged only last week that Brandt abandon his Ostpolitik and "return things to where they were...
...McCarthy era still afflicts the networks. Even in their journalism there is an ever-present binary fear of Government and advertisers. Thus TV-documentary writers begin a special on corruption in Saigon-only to have it scuttled. Then they are assigned a program on patent medicines-and ordered to abandon it. Then they start work on an examination of the military-industrial complex; that, too, is killed...
...While a member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, Smathers tried to persuade the Treasury Department to abandon a tax-reform proposal that would hurt stockholders of Florida's Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. As it happened, Smathers secretly owned two Winn-Dixie stores, which he had obtained "for little or no cash." Subsequently, the Nixon Administration delayed putting the tax-reform measure into effect until 1969. The result: Winn-Dixie was the last major corporation to win the tax break before the deadline...
Robert Jackson was, like his wife, from downstate Illinois. However, while she had enjoyed the freedom and stability of growing up nestled among a large well-knit clan in Harrisburg, he had been abandoned at an early age in the river town of East St. Louis. The demands of survival seem to have burdened Robert Jackson with a particular psychological afflication that was endemic to black men whose youth was consumed in Depression America. As it dictated on a less severe level to other men, survival demanded of Robert Jackson and men like him that they make an operational adjustment...
...Tasaday are a timid people, wary of strangers and so afraid of the fugú, or epidemics like smallpox, that have ravaged the area in the past that they are reported to abandon sick people to die alone and unaided. Their precarious existence permits few to reach old age, and they seem to find little joy in life. Yet the Tasaday like to stand in the rain and let the water course down their bodies. And they enjoy the music of the kúbing, a kind of jew's-harp made from bamboo and carried from place...