Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peace" obviously referred to the end of fighting, "honor" for an agreement which did not "abandon our allies," the South Vietnamese regime of Nguyen Van Thieu. But in the year since Nixon's announcement, it has become clear that the two words are wholly incompatible with reference to Vietnam...
...executes the heist--posing as a rich ice cream manufacturer, vacationing in a Ritzy Cannes hotel, driving a Mercedes, bowling over women the while--it's a wonder that anybody ever goes straight. The answer is that they're gutless (feminized). It takes a Simon, a Courageous man, to abandon a safe life of bourgeois go-getting for a dangerous life of challenging it. It's outlawry as freedom...
...separation of places for the needy and the rich could also have a detrimental effect upon the academic quality of the GSAS. If the decrease in support funds force many more needy students to abandon graduate plans and the lack of merit-oriented scholarships sends the best students to other schools, Harvard could lose both ways...
...Israel also will be sorely tested, as the State Department's large pro-Arab contingent, the oil companies and others push for a policy more congenial to the sheiks. Says Professor William Griffith, a Middle East specialist at M.I.T.: "People are not going to urge that we abandon Israel. But you'll hear more and more statements to the effect that the U.S. should moderate its Middle East policy and should pressure Israel to abandon the conquered territories...
...were denied by government sources in Tokyo, TIME learned that Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani suggested to the Japanese ambassador that in order to be classed as a "friendly" nation, Japan should break relations with Israel. Tanaka told Kissinger that to get supplies, Japan would have to abandon its formally neutral stance for a pro-Arab policy, and asked for U.S. understanding. Kissinger urged...