Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Northern Rhodesia's black leaders want total power, and its whites are not prepared to relinquish any. As the constitutional talks in London dragged on for weeks, the white settlers boycotted them, while the black leaders attended and fumed. When Macleod finally gave both sides a look at his proposed compromise, they erupted. In Salisbury, Federal Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky, a strapping ex-boxer who speaks for the white settlers, stormed: "The vicious influence of African nationalism has apparently turned the bone marrow of many metropolitan countries to jelly. I intend to stem that tide...
...will come are the underdeveloped neutrals, the countries which the project committee feels are most affected by inadequate or ineffective projections of America's image. "These countries," says a committee report, "must never gravitate toward the Soviet bloc...at least we must guarantee that they never have reason to relinquish their neutrality in favor of communism...
...prophets of doom ignored the fact that Bruce Munro is one of the best coaches, in any sport, in the entire Ivy League. Munro kept quiet about his team's chanced before the season began, but it was clear that he was not doing to relinquish his twice-won Ivy title without a struggle...
...militant resentment of the New Deal. In 1942 he had reluctantly signed a C.I.O. contract, which required him to check off union dues. An enemy of the closed shop, he refused to renew the contract in 1944, and Roosevelt reluctantly seized control of Ward. Avery refused to relinquish control to a U.S. marshal, and U.S. Attorney General Francis Biddle hurriedly flew to Chicago to preside as two G.I.s carried Avery out of his office. As he was carried away, Avery flung the ultimate epithet at Biddle: "You New Dealer!" No Depression. When the war ended, Avery was convinced that...
...FINANCING hit another obstacle. TWA's eccentric owner, Howard Hughes, who cleared the way for a $300 million loan a fortnight ago by agreeing to relinquish control of the line, backed out of the agreement...