Word: discarded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost everything else of any importance. But the two leaders have sat together for twenty-one hours, and even if no solutions have emerged, no one can deny that such talks are a good thing. Conference will continue on most of the major questions, and, if both sides can discard some of their ingrained suspicions, some agreements may be miraculously produced. It may not be unduly optimistic to think that the Khrushchev visit and Eisenhower's springtime trip to Russia will make the important world issues not insoluble, but merely unsolved...
...Social Democrats of West Germany have lost the last three elections and seem doomed to lose .the next-unless they stop calling Volkswagen-driving Germans "comrades," discard their faded red proletarian banners and try to attract the middle-class votes that alone can win them first place. The dissension in West Germany's Socialist opposition has been largely obscured by the spectacular personal struggle between Chancellor Adenauer and Vice Chancellor Erhard in the ruling Christian Democrats...
Even now, their collaboration was strictly limited. Using mostly her own company and appearing herself in the leading role, Choreographer Graham presented the last struggles of Mary Queen of Scots to Webern's expansive Passacaglia, Opus i, Six Pieces, Opus 6. The work detailed Mary's discard of the symbols of statecraft, her hopeless duel with Elizabeth, her course to death on the scaffold. Brilliantly costumed, the work had some stunning theatrical effects: the sudden revelation of Elizabeth in shimmering gold gown as her high-backed throne turns slowly to the audience, the ritualistic tennis game played with...
University coaches, however, last night refused to discard their traditional faith in the need for daily meals in the Varsity Club. Football Coach John Yovicsin upheld the idea of special meals on three grounds: physiological, social, and psychological. He stressed the necessity of "getting the players down to playing weight" which he felt could not be accomplished by the normal house fare...
...first grade. "Once we accept a boy, we're going to do our darndest to get him through," Headmaster Edwin H.B. Pratt '36 says. "At the same time, when you have a lot of applicants later on, the temptation is to pick the best of the new lot and discard the though nut whom you already have on your hands...