Word: relent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parents decide to leave Seryozha behind for the winter to recover from an illness; the bottom falls out of the boy's new happiness. And as they have decided to take the baby along, the substance of Seryozha's new doubts seem to become crushing realities. Finally the parents relent and take him with them; but not before Seryozha has suffered great disappointments...
Investigating, U.S. military attaches found the boxes labeled, as claimed, with the clasped-hands symbol but reported that the weapons were mostly non-U.S. At a press conference in Rangoon, Burmese Premier U Nu would not relent. "Where do the arms come from? From Formosa," he declared. "Where does Formosa get her arms? From the U.S. Only one word from America will stop Formosa from supplying arms to the Kuomintang...
...C.I.O.'s President George Meany and failed to convince him that the U.S. foreign policy was more important than the grievances of his seafarers. But after Meany's able legal counsel, Arthur Goldberg, discussed the situation for two days with Dillon and Mitchell, Meany was persuaded to relent. The State Department agreed to investigate the complaints of the Seafarers Union and to "do what it can" to end the anti-Israel blockade. Picketing of the Cleopatra ended and the Arab counter-boycott was called off. Truce, if not outright peace, returned to the troubled waterfronts of the world...