Word: abandons
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...open decks at 1:30 a.m., most of them wearing only bathrobes and slippers. Under the shimmering northern lights, they listened to rousing renditions by the ship's chorus of Oklahoma! and other Rodgers and Hammerstein hits. Suddenly, around 6 a.m. bells rang, and Captain Cornelius Wabeke ordered: "Abandon ship!" With few exceptions, passengers and crew members went in an orderly fashion to their assigned lifeboats, as they had done during a practice drill three days earlier...
...travelling with him, and chances are, whether in Brooklyn or Bayonne, the Carter road show will maintain its high level of technical excellence and flexibility. For the next two and a half weeks, barring a return of the hostages from Iran or unexpected Middle East settlements, Jimmy Carter will abandon the White House for the stage, the lights, the crowds. He will certainly need all of his best stunts to overcome Ronald Reagan's stubborn hold on first place...
...suburbanites settled in to split levels in New Jersey, Westchester, and Long Island, they left behind neighborhoods eventually inhabited by much poorer people. Falling rent forced landlords to neglect and then abandon buildings. Vandals ripped anything of value from the tenements or just torched them. Arson became a carefully planned and profitable activity as landlords burned their buildings to collect fire insurance, making the area charred and hollow...
...snowy-thatched Independent admitted he now realized that "to start a whole movement, a third force in politics, in under six months is too short a period." He also claimed that Carter had benefited from two lucky breaks, just at a time when many Democrats had seemed ready to abandon the President: 1) the economy had picked up slightly "for reasons that had nothing to do with what the Administration did" and 2) Reagan had stumbled badly at first and "made Carter look more viable than...
...great deal to me is that all those people come up to me and say, "Thank you, John, for giving me a choice." That touches me. I am sufficiently emotional that I carry away a feeling of commitment to those people. It is not one that I would lightly abandon...