Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mufflers and overcoats (because of his hypochondria), and in concerts sat himself down on a pygmy chair and proceeded to sigh, groan, sing and wave his hands about as he played? Who could resist the story of the monkish prodigy who burst onto the scene at 23 only to abandon concerts for good eight years later? When Gould died at 50 in 1982, he left behind a mess of unanswered letters and a plethora of unanswered questions. Now, for the first time, the whole jumble has been largely straightened out in an admirably lucid and level-headed biography by Otto...
What kind of mother would expect her 15-year-old daughter to jump off a tower while strapped with wings to prove that mankind can fly? What kind of daughter, after being cowed by such a mother, would so quake at the parent- child bond that she would abandon her toddler to relatives and head off to Europe to teach? What kind of child, growing up as the object of battle between such willful women, would prove at once fiercer and more forgiving than either...
Instead, Labor will emphasize British ties to NATO while espousing the goal of ridding the world of nuclear weapons by the year 2000. Labor's new position, which must be approved at the party's annual conference in October, also asks NATO to abandon its flexible-response strategy based on possible use of tactical and strategic nuclear weapons and to renounce first use of nuclear arms...
Bush hopes that pressure from other Central American nations and the apparent success of Noriega's opposition will persuade him to abandon power, said an administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity. "We're going to proceed slowly, we're going to take our time," the official said...
...such blatant electoral fraud that Panamanians will take to the streets in furious protest, sparking a brutish response from the Panama Defense Forces. The international outcry will deepen Panama's diplomatic isolation, and eventually the economic and political erosion will reach such dire proportions that the military will abandon Noriega. And then? "We'll let things collapse of their own weight," says a senior Administration official...