Word: abandoning
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Clearly, a short break will not tempt the Harvard superstar to abandon the craft she has perfected since childhood. She recounted her introduction to the game: "My brother played lacrosse in high school One day he put a stick in my hand and started winging balls at me I had nothing to do but catch them if I wanted to stay alive...
After Welch's goal, the Big Red came forward with abandon, and Lanzillo clinched the win for Harvard heading home a long cross from halfback John I. Yons in the second half of the overtime...
...administration now bandies about the term "separatist" with the abandon of a high school sophomore flaunting a new vocabulary word. Two years ago, it killed the hope of a Third World Center with the same "separatism" charge. When the University's Games Report rejected a Third World Center in 1980, in favor of the more amorphously structured Foundation, it specifically expressed a fear that a center would lead to separatism and territoriality...
Though some boycott organizers had criticized Greenberg's refusal to abandon his NAACP post in favor of a Black attorney, the BLSA has subsequently stressed the need for more minority Law faculty in explaining the boycott...
...that several other neighborhoods around the city are on the verge of their own little real estate booms, arson is again pushing the old residents out. Either landlord are engaging in blatant arson-for profit or they're cutting maintenance to their buildings, which pressures tenants to abandon the apartments. After that, vandals may torch the building, or scavengers, called "junkies" in the arson business, strip the building for pipes or scrap metal and burn what's left to cover up the robbery. There are between 1200 and 1400 vacant buildings in Boston; once they are disposed of--as about...