Word: relented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Radeliffe did not relent in the second period, pushing home four more goals in the final stanza...
...Figaro has under Hersant become blatantly conservative. The publisher took personal charge of Figaro's pre-election coverage, which omitted any mention of his assembly district opponent-even when the paper carried a rundown of every major party candidate-until an outcry in other papers forced Figaro to relent. Last month Hersant invited 2,000 Figaro subscribers in Neuilly, the Paris suburb he wants to represent in the assembly, to a lavish champagne buffet. In protest against Hersant's abuse of Figaro, Raymond Aron and Jean d'Ormesson, two pillars of the French intellectual establishment, resigned...
...proposal is made up of 30 sections detailing in legal form a declaration of peace, exchange of ambassadors, resumption of trade relations and other workaday items. But there is no map showing what Israel's final borders might be and certainly nothing to indicate that Jerusalem will relent on its opposition to any negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Despite Israeli insistence that "everything is negotiable," a high-ranking official conceded that "there is nothing surprising" in the Dayan treaty...
...occuring. Antigona Perez, conscious of her namesake the Greek Antigone, has buried two brothers in defiance of the laws of the State. The dictator, Creon Molina, who claims to personify the "will of the people," is desperate to have Antigona confess. He realizes that if she does not relent, he is bound to execute her and, by doing so, is bound to create a martyr, a rallying point for the forces that might topple him. Creon sends Antigona's mother, priest and friend to her prison cell. They pressure her to act more ladylike, to resume her privileged position...
Dartmouth refused to relent, though, as it scored twice more before Kelley and Mangano teamed up for a third time at 16:20 to make the tally Dartmouth 6, Harvard...