Word: ceded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...against the scoured stones like the wooden clapper in a bell, warning that they were slippery." The Auctioneer becomes less a tale of suspense than a parable of politics. The open questions it poses are as old as society itself: What is the nature of power? What makes people cede control over their own destinies to the glib, the avaricious, the contemptuous...
...word is seem. Men seem to be what they are not. They delude themselves as to what they are. A form of the word appears in Act I, Scene 3, and it recurs like the tolling of a melancholy bell. Duke Vincentio (William Hutt) has decided to cede his authority for a while to his austere deputy, the rectitudinous Angelo (Brian Bedford). As the lordly duke dons monkish attire (he will seem to be a friar), he implies that he is testing Angelo: "Hence shall we see,/ If power change purpose, what our seemers be." Initially, Angelo acts as severely...
...head of the South Vietnamese delegation to the Geneva Convention of 1954, and Father Tran Huu Thanh, leader of the Catholic anticorruption movement that has sponsored several popular anti-Thieu demonstrations in the past several months. The group's first move was to put pressure on Thieu to cede his power to a new, more broadly based government. Thieu could remain as President, but he should preside over an entirely new Cabinet...
...that he would be willing to grant independence to the West Bank, the area west of the Jordan River captured by Israeli troops during the Six-Day War. Once Israel returned the area, Hussein would be agreeable to a plebiscite of its Arab population. He thereby appeared ready to cede a chunk of his kingdom and a quarter of his population in return for peace and Arab economic support. But he had hardly begun his Washington rounds when Israel seemed to knock down his offer...
...fusion between analyst and decision-maker, the probability is that the public will accept it with eagerness. There are four reasons" (1) Elected officials remain responsible for their actions in their own minds and the minds of the public. A high-level official, being human, has no desire to cede authority to anyone else...