Word: abandons
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Clearly, minorities and third-party candidates find it exceedingly difficult to gain representation in legislative bodies, because the donkeys or the elephants are able to marshal between 45 and 55 percent of the vote. Minority parties are often forced to abandon the fundamental principles of their constituencies merely to form a coalition with a majority party. This well-established party then grudgingly grants them nominal representation, just as the black vote is taken for granted by the Democratic Party...
...exhortations to pedophilia or obscure, nauseating references to auto-oral-menstrual-eroticism, I saw no conservatives tear down Tuesday's ubiquitous smut. Imagine my outrage, then, upon seeing an avowed liberal, wearing the "coming out day" sticker, nonchalantly destroy two Republican candidate posters Tuesday evening. This movement must abandon its false pretense of open-mindedness. The increasingly bogus "queer" agenda won no supporters and gained at least this opponent today...
That being said, one has to wonder if she has ever actually set foot in the abode that bears her family name. And I do mean abode, as in Abode of the Damned. Dante's Tenth Circle of Hell. Abandon all hope, Ye who enter here--particularly ye first-years who were tricked into believing that Loker Commons actually serves as any sort of social center to the Harvard population...
...meantime, it doesn't take much to imagine how soon the rest of us will be untethered from our modem wires. Novatel is already talking about its next-generation modem, which will abandon Seedy Petey for gsm, a cellular standard that handles data far better--and faster. That GSM-compatible Merlin, which the company expects to start selling in the middle of next year, will supposedly send and receive data at Mercury-fast 144 kbps, even from a train. I bet it'll be cute...
Country music is lonely work. A man stares out his pickup window and wonders how love could abandon him with such ease and finality. So Prine, who knows a bit about hurt--he has recently survived cancer of the neck--has called on a few good women (including Patty Loveless, Trisha Yearwood, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams) to join him in no-frills, no-foolin' duets on 15 country chestnuts. The one new song is Prine's own title tune, a funny, grimy anthem for two misfits who suit each other fine. It says even driving himself to hell, he ought...