Word: abandons
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Near the end of the act. Elvis comes down off the stage. He wades through the rivers of ecstatic thirty-year-olds that stream down the aisles, abandoning their husbands and lovers to drink silently at their tables. Elvis pushes slowly and resolutely through the women, Kissing those that manage to grab hold of his neck, merely touching the outstretched bands of the others. He crosses the entire room, until finally mercifully, one of his aides pulls him back onto the stage. And you understand it all too well. He's simply borrowing from the politician's routine. Abandon...
...show of force by those members of the U. S. Congress who claim to oppose the war. Liberal senators must abandon their impotent posturing and begin effective action to disrupt the functioning of the U. S. military machine. Senators should begin a filibuster against all Administration appropriations bills now pending, whether military or not. In addition, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee should begin immediately its longpostponed televised hearings on Administration policy in Vietnam and summon Nixon, Laird, Kissinger, Rogers, and Mitchell to give an account of their crimes...
...Charles de Gaulle composed a tribute to Napoleon Bonaparte that could serve as his own epitaph: "In spite of the time that has gone by, of opposing sentiments and new subjects for mourning, crowds from every part of the world render homage to his memory and near his grave abandon themselves to a shiver of grandeur...
...would probably be forced to abandon an ally to which it is bound by tradition as well as treaty. Since the Nationalist government has existed on Taiwan as long as Mao's in Peking, a move that would estrange it from Washington and isolate it from other countries offers no more justice than current U.S. policy...
Abba Eban, Israel's Foreign Minister, addressed a crowd of more than 2200 at Harvard yesterday and vowed that his country would not abandon the current Mideast cease-fire lines until a permanent peace with the Arab nations has been achieved...