Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...search for accommodation, the parties with strong links to the paramilitaries did not abandon their long-range political goals. They only took the bold step of talking to the enemy. "I am a British citizen and will remain one," says Billy Hutchinson, leader and chief negotiator of the Progressive Unionists. "But I have the guts to face Sinn Fein." For his pains he has been called a traitor to unionism by the likes of Ian Paisley, the blunderbuss leader who has made a career of fanning hatred in the North of Ireland and who refused to participate in the talks...
...sometimes sound mesmerized by the sheer resonance of their own vocal cords, Smith has a more nimble sense of phrasing--he's rich yet light, the flourless chocolate cake of a Weight Watcher's dream. On the Art Blakey tune Moanin' he lets loose with a paradoxically graceful abandon that would make a silky shouter like Joe Williams proud...
...daughter lives on Australian Standard Time, eats like a wolverine, gulps down air, stores up pockets of gas that are not easily jiggled out of her. She poops with gay abandon. Her deepest pleasure comes from pooping while feeding, to engage the entire digestive tract at once. Pure bliss. She fights off sleep, afraid she might miss something. Midnight to 6 a.m. is prime time, and if she dozes, she keeps one eye open for the main action. My maneuver for laying her in the crib is very involved, something I learned from a National Geographic special on the praying...
...will definitely be met with firm resistance from a wide range of bureaucrats. The nation today is not like the China of old, when the one-man shows of Mao and Deng could be played on the political stage. To succeed nowadays, top leaders need to demonstrate unity and abandon political juggling. JEAN K. LAM Hong Kong...
...idealist in ends. Above all, F.D.R. stood for humanity against ideology. The 20th was the most ideological of centuries. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin systematically sacrificed millions to false and terrible dogmas. Even within the democracies, ideologues believed that the Great Depression imposed an either/or choice: if you abandon laissez-faire, you are condemned to total statism. "Partial regimentation cannot be made to work," said Herbert Hoover, "and still maintain live democratic institutions...