Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high school, where everyone knew each other and gossiped and skipped classes slyly and with caution, my friends longed to escape...far far away...to a college where everyone knows each other and gossips and skips classes with reckless abandon. My graduation year, as is always the case, a dozen or so Wyoming High School students enrolled in Miami University...
...said he hopes Americans will abandon the ethic "that would require everyone to put on a uniform no matter what, as a test of his manhood...
Ironically, the goal, while giving Princeton a comfortable 2-0 lead, served to transfer the "Big Mo" to Harvard. From there on out, the Crimson cast aside its inhibitions and went after Princeton with reckless abandon...
British Coal argues that it was forced into the cuts because its best customers, the electric-power companies, decided to abandon coal furnaces and convert to gas-operated generators. The electric utilities claim that gas will be cheaper and more environmentally friendly than coal...
...planning to start either a "second adulthood" or a new life as a "crone" (Greer's term), the new menopause genre will read like the ghastly tracts on menstruation that used to be inflicted on girls in the 1950s. Puberty then, like menopause now, was a portal labeled ABANDON ALL HOPE, YE WHO ENTER HERE...