Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until he could return, Hatoyama entrusted the Liberal Party to his good friend Yoshida. By the time he was de-purged five years later, Hatoyama had been laid low by a stroke, and tough-minded Shigeru Yoshida had grown too attached to the job to relinquish it. Hatoyama bided his time until the conservatives and their business backers began chafing under Yoshida's leadership, and the public began showing its irritation with the remnants of U.S. occupation and those who cooperated with it. All that was then necessary was a shrewd deal across the game tables. Overnight last fall...
...during most of the first half and didn't relinquish the lead until six minutes had passed in the second period. From then to the finish it was close basketball, with the score being tied nine times...
Pressures which forced Georgi Malenkov to relinquish his position as Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in March 1953 probably caused the Russian prime minister's abrupt resignation, a Russian authority at the University said yesterday...
...Hodding Carter of the Greenville Delta Democrat-Times, an advocate of gradual desegregation. "Some day," said he last week, "curious and shocked Americans will ask history and each other who were these angry and fearful people who reacted so unwisely to a doubtful threat as to be willing to relinquish to politicians the decision as to whether their hard-gained public-school systems would endure or die . . . Neither do we believe that any county's school system should be permitted to be abolished by a simple majority of the legislature. Man and boy, we've seen too often...
...Oppenheimer's] actions reveals a frequent and deliberate disregard of those security regulations which restrict a man's associations. He was engaged in a highly delicate area of security; within this area he occupied a most sensitive position. The requirement that a man in this position should relinquish the right to the complete freedom of association that would be his in other circumstances is altogether a reasonable and necessary requirement ... It was particularly essential in the case of Dr. Oppenheimer. It will not do to plead that Dr. Oppenheimer revealed no secrets to the Communists and fellow travelers...