Word: abandoning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...serious-minded, middle-aged little Swiss who leaves his filing clerk's job with the League of Nations to take his wife and two sons on a pleasure cruise in an airliner. Over the Atlantic the airship runs into a frightful storm. Just in time the Robinsons abandon the crippled ship, are whipped away into the night on an air-raft. They come safely to rest on the mooring mast of the Empire State Building, still unfinished, which at first they take to be some kind of gigantic tree. Father Robinson makes several exploratory trips down into the seething jungle...
...This budget does not decrease the personnel of the Navy 'below its present status [79,700 men] by a single man. It does not decommission any fighting ships although the rotation plan will be continued. It does not propose to abandon any of the Navy Yards. . . . The budget provides for ... the frigate Constitution and . . . the Navy bands...
...year with the Soviet officials. I can swear that no foreigners have given or are giving me guns, munitions, supplies or money! I want the League of Nations to fulfill its duty. I want it to force the Japanese to withdraw from Northern Manchuria. If I am forced to abandon Tsitsihar I intend to retire into the back country...
...your issue of Oct. 19, p. 30, there was an item in regard to President Garfield of Williams College having persuaded the fraternities to abandon their fall houseparties...
...Premier, proud of himself and especially of the "free and frank" discussions which he had conducted with President Hoover, bowed right & left, embraced Cabinet Ministers who had come to greet him with abandon, kissed his men friends generally and crowed...