Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work as a teacher of ceramics to students in the middle and older age brackets, I am in contact with what is happening to people as a result of our increasingly "easy life." People who relinquish the common home chores unknowingly also give up "status"-and the satisfaction of each one having done something himself. So, in one sense, all of the industrial advancements only make my work more necessary—building confidence in the latent abilities of each of my students. Now my students make the very soup bowl (out of clay, glazed and fired) into which they will pour...
...prerogatives. Post-Dispatch Publisher Joseph Pulitzer Jr. had agreed to union demands for $10-a-week pay boost this year and $5 in 1960, enough to pay the stereotypers their highest scale anywhere in the U.S. (duplicated only in Detroit). In exchange, the paper asked the union to relinquish its uneconomic control over "base," the metal blocks on which engravings are laid. As it has been, a composing-room hand must take base blocks back to the stereotype department to be trimmed, even though he could easily trim them himself...
...body should guard the country against fall-out has never been precisely defined, but up to the present time, the Atomic Energy Commission has assumed that responsibility. Recently however, the Public Health Service declared that logically such control should come under its own jurisdiction. The AEC, not caring to relinquish any part of its functions, accused the Health Service of a power grab, and decided to sit tight...
...most one can say against the idea is that in the present belligerent mood of Congress it is idealistic. No one can expect a Congress which makes such a point of scrutinizing every expenditure for foreign aid to relinquish its control immediately. But UN Secretary-General Hammarskjold is very eager to get plans for such a pool of experts underway. If he can convince the State Department and if it can convince Capitol Hill, a valuable replacement for present unsatisfactory aid programs can be initiated...
...Queen Victoria, the Premiers bickered, shot insults back and forth like poisoned darts. When the conference took up the ticklish problem of how to protect the rights of minorities among Nigeria's 250 tribes, Awolowo suggested creating three new states. The North's Sardauna, not wishing to relinquish any of his own territory, vetoed the idea. Nor did he like the plan for a centralized police force under the federal government: he much preferred to use his own force, which, answerable only to him, can pop a man in jail with no questions asked...