Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation disarmament meetings in Geneva last week, the Soviet Union proposed a draft agreement forbidding any use of the ocean floor for military purposes-which would force the U.S. to abandon the network of electronic devices that the Navy either has or intends to place on the seabed to keep track of submarine traffic. However, until there is agreement on limiting a much wider array of armaments, the U.S. is not likely to give up its seabed monitoring gear...
...give him four more years to try to bring the nation's unruliest city under control. Flanked by such Republican icons as former Governor Thomas E. Dewey and Mrs. Fiorello La Guardia, Lindsay announced his candidacy. "I run because too much, much too much, is at stake to abandon the effort my administration has begun," Lind say said. "I believe the tide of physical and spiritual decay has been turned...
...picturesque country churches are sad reminders of a vanishing way of life. Except for occasional tourists, few people ever visit them; each year their congregations grow ever smaller. "There hasn't been a wedding here in twelve years," laments one venerable priest who stubbornly refuses to abandon his diminishing flock in the village of Ox-combe. "We only have funerals...
...efficient slaughter. With stout oak clubs they move systematically through the herd, beating the whitecoats to death with raps on the skull. Only if a hulking 300-lb. cow seal chooses to fight for her baby will a swiler sometimes spare it. But most cows, especially the older ones, abandon their pups and escape into the water...
...strange and wonderful disease, CHARITYITIS, is running rampant in the Harvard area. CHARITYITIS causes a rare reaction in the female: she is overcome with an uncontrollable urge to ask the male for a date! Symptoms: wildly palpitating heart. Extreme euphoria. A sense of delicious abandon...