Word: relent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of the warriors who in grudging admiration drank Father Brébeuf's blood and ate his heart lived to enter the Jesuit mission at Caughnawaga as Christian converts. But four more Jesuits and two lay companions died martyrs' deaths before the Iroquois began to relent. And never until scholarly, unassuming Michael Jacobs, born Wishe Karhaienton, was ordained, had a full-blooded Mohawk Iroquois donned the black robe which made him a spiritual brother of Isaac Jogues and Jean de Breb?...
...long time seemed likely last week when the Post Office Department invoked an old regulation against attaching any merchandise to copies of a publication using second-class mail rates. Even if samples were carried only in city editions, the Post Office would not relent, since the letter of the law states the entire edition of a second-class publication must be uniform...
...Harvard will have to dial ELI when the new telephone system goes into effect next November, it was ascertained last night. When the plan was first rumored several weeks ago, there was such a distressed reaction from the student and faculty bodies, that the telephone company was expected to relent. They have been guided, however, by the sterling character of a Harvard president rather than by the tender sensibilities of the inmates of his University. In addition to Eliot, the other exchanges will be Trowbridge and Kirkland...
...further debt tinkering, the British and French communications were just so much waste paper which did not change a single vote. Any Congressional sympathy for Britain vanished at her threat of trade reprisals against the U. S. Declared an anonymous Treasury official: "Britain has said in effect, 'Relent or the grass will grow in your streets,' and Congress is saying 'Let's see the grass.' " Most Senators and Representatives felt that European debtor nations were ganging the U. S. taxpayer and Congress was that harried individual's last line of defense. The few Congressmen...
...waitress, Arlene Judge, who presently gets her father and demands marriage. Dorothy Wilson consoles herself by a ride in the snappy car of Eric Linden, a smart-cracking admirer. They turn over, Linden is mortally injured. Dorothy Wilson's injuries are bad enough to make Arlene Judge relent when she-sees the reunion of Wilson & Cromwell. Notably absent from The Age of Consent are football games, cheers, banners. There is only one gin party...