Word: jettisoning
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...Britain, angry and unbowed, lurched along through the Great Muddle. The nation had survived far greater crises. The unique feature of this one was that it seemed to have no focus, no great principle at stake, no end. If the clamor got too great, Attlee could always jettison Webb and agree to the Argentine meat price. Socialism was an admirable instrument for rationing discomfort and deadening pain...
...show opened, the Whitney announced it would soon jettison its fine collection of 19th Century art (worth perhaps $250,000), use the proceeds to buy more & more paintings like those in the current show. For the price of such a proven masterpiece as Thomas Eakins' The Biglen Brothers Ready to Start the Race, the Whitney could probably pick up the latest Koerner, and the latest Kantor, Gatch and Levine...
...President even made heavy inroads into the traditionally-conservative Republican Mid-West. Old Guardism failed to produce substantially for Dewey and it failed to produce substantially against the Democrats. This failure strongly indicates not only that the future of Old Guardism is bleak, but that an intelligent conservatism must jettison it to survive as a decisive political force in this country...
...permit all oil line-pipe mills and mine machinery makers to operate at capacity. The committee had turned him down. Last week Davidson accused the committee of "supplying steel for nonessential and even frivolous purposes ... I can draw no conclusion . . . other than that the steel industry has decided to jettison the voluntary allocations program...
After 50 hours of vain efforts to get his ship off the Goodwins, Captain Ruocco sorrowfully went ashore with his crew of 28, two German stowaways and an Alsatian pup. Later he came back to the ship, hoping to jettison the heavy lead cargo. Tide and weather thwarted him. Sturdy little Dover tugs buzzed about the Silvia Onorato, greedy for salvage. But at week's end, the insatiable Goodwins* still held their prize. Said a lifeboat man with a touch of local pride: "I think the Goodwins got her for good...