Word: relented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discuss India's plea for 2,000,000 tons of grain to feed its famine-threatened millions. Texas' Senator Tom Connally had pointedly announced that India would have to wait while a Foreign Relations subcommittee "looked into" the whole question of U.S.-Indian relations. Would Congress relent? Would India be left to starve...
...eastern outskirts runs the boundary between Yugoslavia and Italy. Ever since the 1947 peace treaty which set up this artificial boundary, gregarious Gorizians had chafed mightily under border control rules that permitted only a handful of them to cross the frontier. Last week, the Italians and Yugoslavs decided to relent, issued about 2,000 permits allowing the bearers to cross the border on Sunday...
Fatty threatened gently for two hours. Mme. de Vasselot remained adamant. Then the petit gros forgot his manners. Whipping out a pocket knife, he vowed he would cut Madame's ears off then & there if she did not relent. Mme. de Vasselot opened the safe...