Word: ceding
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...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...
Like Flies. Arriving last week in West Bengal's Cede station, Mrs. Nipubala Nag, a Hindu from Pakistan, dabbed tears from her eyes as she told of a Moslem mob that burst in on terrified Hindu mill workers in Dacca, East Pakistan's capital, with daggers, axes and steel bars. Among the dead were her husband and 19-year-old son. At Jessore, grey-bearded, shirtless Osman Ghani talked wistfully of his home and stationery shop in Calcutta, both burned to the ground by Hindu mobs. After weeks in an Indian relief camp, Ghani, his wife and three...
...would be Sen. Hubert Humphrey. Humphrey wants the nomination. He has solid support from labor (although labor has not often proved to be a solid political force). But Humphrey might be too valuable to Johnson in the Senate. Sen. Mansfield, called by some "his own worst critic," reportedly will cede the Majority Leadership to Humphrey in the next Congress. Paradoxically, then, if Humphrey is outstanding in handling the civil rights bill he could impair his own chances to be vice-President...
Americans have become so gutless and cowardly that if Florida were invaded from Cuba and Texas from Mexico, we would probably call a 14-nation parley and cede the Southern states to them as long as they didn't cross the Mason-Dixon line...