Word: abandoning
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...Cronin abandoned his original plans for breaking through the walls of the present dining room and establishing a smaller room for private functions because the Pediatric Center location is too small. Prohibitive rent caused the Catholic Club to abandon plans to use the location between Dunster and Holyoke Streets as a meeting place...
Union difficulty has forced Hasty Pudding Theatricals to abandon use of the Kaufmann Theatre for its on-the-road Christmas vacation New York...
Whether the American government subscribes to this new position and whether it will be willing to abandon its dogmatic position on Far Eastern problems is not clear. But the turn of events in Korea made it tragically plain that this country has been supporting a big policy with a small army. General MacArthur's "end of the war" drive provided the denouement; it was, as Tokyo now admits, a dangerous gamble, and we lost...
...reason for astonishment or indignation . . .' Having completed this catalogue of disaster there is a certain satisfaction in [concluding] 'it might be worse'-and since it is a phrase which . . . has served very well from the Spanish Armada to the London blitz we are not likely to abandon...
When the Federal Government stepped in twelve years ago to salvage his foundering Dollar Steamship Lines, President R. (for Robert) Stanley Dollar was grateful for the chance to abandon ship. His famed globe-girdling shipping line, founded in 1901 by his canny Scottish father, Captain Robert Dollar, was crusted with the barnacles of mismanagement, and carried a top-heavy load of holding companies...