Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...German invasion, Chonkin's idyl continues. His unit has shipped out and forgotten him. But a district policeman suspects that Chonkin may be a Nazi spy-perhaps even a White Russian general about to lead a counterrevolution. When a detail is sent to arrest him, Chonkin refuses to abandon his post. Uproarious chaos, slapstick and barnyard antics ensue...
...Senators and aides waged their fight in Washington, they persuaded some newsmen to re-examine Brown's Pentagon record. Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak did so in a critical way, finding Brown to be inconsistent. First, he successfully resisted McNamara's efforts to abandon the bombing of North Viet Nam's military supply centers and transportation facilities (at one point Brown urged mining and bombing Haiphong harbor). Then, after the war, he pushed for faster disarmament agreements with the Soviets. In fact, the specific means of waging war are not really in conflict with ways...
...CHINESE TIES: "We could do more to upgrade the U.S.-Chinese relationship to minimize the possibility of a swing in China toward greater normalization with the Soviet Union. [But] I don't think the U.S. can simply abandon the security treaty with Taiwan ... The U.S. cannot be a viable guarantor of anyone's existence if we welsh on a commitment to maintain the survival of a particular party...
...initial period is over, Vance said, he does not envision a major personal role for himself as an international negotiator. But, he added, along with Carter, "I clearly intend to be involved in the determination of what the U.S. negotiating strategy will be." Thus, while Vance will not completely abandon Kissinger's balance-of-power approach to foreign affairs, he will shun Kissinger's highly personalized style of diplomacy. Vance intends to allow U.S. negotiators to go as far as they can on their own, then have them bring the problems to him and Carter for resolution. Said...
...male chauvinist pigs" at a recent R-H Women's Center discussion. Many years ago I vowed never to fall back on that term in public or private; I have never done so; and while I have been known to employ the shorter form "pigs" with perhaps too great abandon, the aforementioned quote cannot be ascribed accurately...