Word: discarded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anniversary was the most significant fact about last week's wary maneuverings between East & West. For Joseph Stalin in those 30 years has ruthlessly consolidated power in his own country, survived a catastrophic war, shown a genius for organization, an ability to raise up obedient lieutenants and to discard them at will, a talent for calculated and patient diplomacy and a flair for timing. Last week, at 72, the old pro was waging what editorial writers-using a habitual but meaningless phrase-called a new "peace offensive...
...Further, he argues, it is not sufficient to present an opponent's argument for him. You must allow him to present it in all its force and appeal, for only by this free and unhampered contest of ideas will we ever be able to choose the true and discard the false...
According to the rules, if the freshmen win they can discard their beanies; but if they lose they have to wear them until the Dartmouth-Cornell game. After the debacle Tuesday, the beanie issue was decided in favor of the freshmen...
...unhappy outcome when we discard the possibility of criminal action and can't convince people," commented Dr. Ford...
...ostrich feather business has one thing in common with the buggy-whip industry and the horse. All three were ruined by Henry Ford. When women began riding in open automobiles before World War I, they had to discard their majestic hats, crowned with glossy ostrich plumes. That spelled disaster for South Africa's ostrich farmers, who fed and plucked 1,000,000 ostriches every year. On the sun-baked Little Karoo plateau around Oudtshoorn, ostrich capital of the world, farmers killed their birds by the thousands, stripped the rich dark meat from the carcasses for stew. Flocks dwindled...