Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jesse L. Jackson called on the nation to come together and abandon the "bitter fruits of governance based on inequality, division, and short-term profit" during a speech at the Kennedy School of Government last night...
...began my apprenticeship when I was in fifth grade. Dr. Fitzsimmons continued to teach me about bees and prairie plants until mid-high school, when I had to abandon beekeeping for academic pursuits. In ninth grade, I struck up a friendship with Regina, the youngest of his nine children. We were united in adversity against the hypocrisies of our respective schools, both singlesex pre schools...
Getting around town isn't very difficult, although bus drivers do drive with a reckless abandon that would awe even a Boston native...
When they returned to Germany to try to restore what they had been forced to abandon 23 years earlier, they had to start from scratch all over again...
Nonetheless, Scully does not tread wearily through the book's itinerary (ancient Greek and Roman architecture, the Gothic cathedrals of France, Renaissance Florence, Versailles, Vaux-le-Vicomte, etc...); rather, he takes to it with abandon, incorporating a sensitivity to the literary and cultural context that surrounds the buildings he studies, and using a sparkling rhetorical style that enlivens a subject liable to be wearied by either dense technical jargon or the purple prose of art speak...