Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chairman Peter Rodino introduced the authorizing resolution by aptly quoting what British Statesman Edmund Burke had said in 1771 when the British Parliament was considering an impeachment case. "We stand in a situation very honorable to ourselves and very useful to our country, if we do not abuse or abandon the trust that is placed in us," said Rodino...
...Christoph Bertram, assistant director of the highly respected Institute for Strategic Studies in London, predicts that if the current Soviet technical development continues and no defense is found, "all U.S. land-based missile forces would be highly vulnerable by the end of the decade." One alternative would be to abandon land-based missile systems altogether?a step that has been suggested by both the Federation of American Scientists and analysts at the Brookings Institution. The idea is also supported by Fred C. Ikle, the chief of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Such a change would save billions...
Bamako was in the midst of student demonstrations, however, and the Traore regime quickly showed that it would use force to quell any disturbance. Faced with the possibility of detention in a Mali jail, Guggenheim and the students decided to abandon the trip north and return home immediately...
There has been a glut of police and private eye movies in the last few months, almost all of them French Connection ripoffs. But The Long Goodbye stands apart, harking back to an earlier kind of movie where the hero didn't have to abandon his own morality in order to root out others' amorality. Robert Altman has accomplished this without creating a sterile exercise in nostalgia, and has breathed life into the sagging genre of detective films...
...left it, still loves it. He feels very sensitive, he says in Strong Opinions, about his lack of a natural vocabulary. He echoes what he said in the afterword to Lolita: My private tragedy, which cannot, indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural language, my natural idiom, my rich, infinitely rich and docile Russian tongue, for a second-rate brand of English. He feels caught between Russian, for which he no longer has an audience, and English, which to him still feels "stiff and artificial," however brilliant his success with...