Word: ceded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pope. Cavalier talk it was, too, for the parlor of an absent Foreign Minister. As Il Borghese played it, La Pira had gaily dismissed Communism as "a peril that no longer exists." President Johnson, he told the editor with a mystic's assurance, "will have to cede and make peace [in Viet Nam] because American financiers want it." Dean Rusk? "He doesn't know anything." Italian Premier Aldo Moro? "There's something about him I don't like." Pope Paul? "I have faith in him," allowed the Saint, "even if he sometimes stops, seesaws and bogs...
Under the bill, the state could cede as many as 11 of the Yard's 12 acres to the feral government, which will run the Library. The state could sell to the Library Corporation the remaining one acre and any other land that is unneeded for the actual construction of the Kennedy Memorial...
...state commission appointed to recommend a Massachusetts memorial to President Kennedy recentlyg suggested that the state cede six acres of the 12-acre Bennett St. MBTA Yards, across Boylston St. from Eliot House, to the federal government. The six acres would house the buildings directly connected with the library...
...Habsburg emperor, Rudolf II was exceptionally inept. During his rule, from 1576 to 1612, he was forced to cede Hungary, Moravia, Austria and Bohemia. Yet he had vision of sorts. He was an amateur astronomer, brought Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe to the Hradčany, his imperial castle in Prague, to perfect his stargazing. Rudolf's keen eye carried over into the arts, which he collected with all the magpiety of a Renaissance nobleman worshiping beauty. It was one of the world's greatest collections, but Rudolf could not hold on to it either...
...task is to cut through the junk in the public mind by seeking the order that underlies the clutter of small events; to winnow out of the apparent what is the real; to cede to television and radio the mere repetition of activities and to look behind the bare event for meanings...