Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plain folk, not fancy Indian-fighters and adventurers. His Indians are mostly beggars and hangers-on, a menace only to horses, cows and the pioneers' imaginations. The real enemies are cholera, diarrhea, dust, heat, rivers, white bandits, traders, quarreling among themselves. Out of jealousy, the caravan captain ruthlessly abandons a middleaged, kindly schoolteacher in the desert. But he is efficient, and he does not, like many another captain, abandon women and the sick because they cannot keep up. The romance between Nancy Ann and a hard-muscled "recruit" picked up along the way is as earthy-gritty as their...
...uninsured oldsters by giving them pensions up to $30 a month, financed by matching State and Federal grants. In practice the 1,783,171 pensioners under this program are getting an average of $19, and in the South pensions have ranged down to $6. The Roosevelt-Altmeyer proposal: abandon the policy of matching grants, subsidize States according to their economic need...
...late; unquestionably it is not too late. The forces of the Spanish Government are still fighting the battle for democracy.....If they haven't given up, if they continue to fight..., if they are prepared to continue under these conditions, can it be right for us to abandon them? But as things are moving now, it will be too late if we do not act now and promptly...
...futile to talk of isolation; in order to remain neutral in the event of a major European war it would be necessary, according to a survey made some time ago by the National Economic and Social Planning Organization, to limit all trade to peace-time levels and abandon American shipping except for narrowly defined neutral zones. Rigid control of the credit and finance activities of the country would be essential; also, in order to keep our economic system from becoming geared to a war-time pitch, with the inflation this entails, it would be necessary to control industrial and agricultural...
...Crimson in the last practice tilt before vacation, but the Fesler five's defense collapsed against a Tufts attack which was as old as the hills. The Jumbos set up scoring plays under the baskets just as the Feslermen had attempted to do earlier in the year, only to abandon this attack in favor of a faster-breaking...