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Abernathy telephoned King, and together the two ministers marshaled a 382-day boycott that eventually caused the bus company to relent. It was about this time that Abernathy first tasted violence. At 2:10 on a January morning in 1957, the front of his house was dynamited, fortunately injuring no one inside...
...maybe, just maybe, the Administration will relent and give us one more chance. One more mixer--a chance to relive times that may never be again. A chance for Harvard, students to be on their best behavior and rewin the privilege that they have lost with their unconscionable past mischief...
...Nigerian air force base at the Northern administrative capital of Kaduna. In between times, it dropped thousands of leaflets on federal territory, warning of "the terrible consequences of continued collaboration" with Gowon. "Now that we are on the offensive," Ojukwu announced over Radio Biafra, "we shall not relent until every single enemy soldier on Biafran soil is destroyed, more territories of Nigeria liberated, and the enemy vanquished...
...Need Help." Since most expenditures are mandated by law, school boards have little choice but to keep resubmitting the defeated budgets to the voters until they relent and approve them. Similarly, most bond issues, after being stripped of a few thousand dollars of frills, pass the second time around: parents generally see the need for new schools when their children start attending overcrowded classes on a shift schedule. But many educators admit that local communities can no longer be counted upon as the primary source of support for public schools. "We need help," says Cincinnati's Miller. "If citizens...
...vacancy caused by his exclusion. There was no doubt that Powell would win at the polls, but his victory could well be meaningless, since the House has already voted, 307 to 116, to bar him from the 90th Congress. There remains, however, the possibility that the House will relent. Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, chairman of the select committee that recommended that Powell be seated but penalized, predicts that the House will now admit the prodigal...