Word: abandoning
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...Frank Sinatra (applause), Billy Eckstine (applause), Tony Bennett (laughter), Arthur Godfrey (laughter), Bing Crosby (cheers). After the impersonations, the entertainer sings some straight songs-in a voice not so good as some of those he mimicked, but clear and sure. Then he may play the drums with the abandon of a voodoo priest...
...criticisms spring up within me," wailed Gaullist Michel Debre. "No way seems to be sure, no solution seems to be the ideal." An Independent Senator complained that France was being blackmailed by its allies. "From surrender to surrender, from self-denial to self-denial, are we ready to abandon everything in order to avoid isolation?" he demanded...
...were the only ones to which Polish patriots could look for help. Stalin needed to destroy this hope-to show the Poles that the Western powers would in practice throw the principles of the Atlantic Charter overboard. The first step must be to get the U.S. and Britain to abandon the London Polish government...
...like failure. "Each time you fail," he says, "you learn something. If you have faith in yourself you accept the failure and go on. The more failures the better." This philosophy has seen Gerassi through some dark times, and brought him to a point where he may have to abandon it. Gerassi's first exhibition in 20 years opens next week at Manhattan's Panoras Gallery, and is likely to be a smashing success...
...voiced Khmer, the recorded voice of King Norodom continued: "I announce publicly my intention to abandon power and the throne. I shall go down among my people, living with the humblest, taking nothing with me from the palace ... I designate my parents to succeed...