Word: relented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...going to do for a living now," sighed Pete Elliott, 40, "but it obviously will have to be a new career." Elliott's old career as head football coach at the University of Illinois ended abruptly last week after the Big Ten's faculty representatives refused to relent on their decision to boot Illinois out of the conference unless Pete was fired-along with Illinois Basketball Coach Harry Combes and Combes's assistant Howard Braun (TIME, March 10). The three coaches had been found guilty of providing needy athletes with "walking-around money" from an alumni-financed...
...Charles de Gaulle, usually scornful of such supranationalism, let it be known that he will go to Rome "if a meeting is held." A top question will be the possible admission of Great Britain. So far, De Gaulle has said no, but now there are hopes that he may relent. If he does, he will have lots of company: everyone else wants Britain...
...expand at once. "In St. Louis, the same kind of place might be located behind a shoeshine parlor, in Chicago, behind a Chinese laundry." His goal: a national chain of spy clubs with members identified through individual "passports." Meanwhile, he is hoping that Milwaukee's city fathers will relent and approve one of his favorite gimmicks. It is a telephone booth in the rear of the bar, patterned after the one used by TV Agent Maxwell Smart. When a patron dials the proper digits, the rear wall of the booth slips open onto stairs leading to a secret back...
...concerts, performed on TV, and recorded an opera and two orchestral pieces. The French critics treated his visitations with a mixture of adulation and almost blind acceptance and the Paris musicians' union named him honorary president. Things were going swimmingly. There was even some hope that Boulez might relent and return to Paris for good...