Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...sponsors fear that this country would be forced to become an "armed camp and abandon democratic methods" in order to overcome successfully the unseen war which the Axis powers have already begun to "weaken and divide" the American people...
...woman) tells us all about Duke Ellington in a letter to the current Down Beat ... "Ellington music is an unearthly melodiousness, full of poignancy and melancholy, wailing of unfulfilled longings, futile suspirations, fugitive ecstacies, insuperable barriers, self-conscious revolt and perilous triumphs, rising to a crescendo of delirious abandon, then diminishing to a wistful despondency, whispering of a quandary of hopes, fears, sadness, hurt, chargrin, unrequited love, and confusion." Solid, Jackson...
...should go in support of England is a difficult problem, but as least it seems clear that if England survives, this country is better off. If we abandon England we abandon any remaining chance to enjoy relatively favored, protected isolation: the kind of isolation that does not bring external pressures of a magnitude that will prevent internal progress...
...Jervis Bay was settling fast by the bow. But only just before the hot muzzle of his last active gun hissed in the sea did Captain Fegan give the order to abandon ship. Sixty-eight men (out of 250) reached the one lifeboat and two rafts that remained floatable. Captain Fegan was not among them...
Last night the committee decided to abandon its customary fail production entirely, and confine itself to perfecting two plays to be given in the spring...