Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voluntarily relinquish the circus atmosphere is ... more mature," he added. The idea is to move on to other action before the momentum of the sanctuary is dissipated...
...conciliation is an understanding that conflict is universal, indeed necessary. All living creatures want things that others do not care to relinquish. Without some conflict, there are no solutions, no yin and yang, the classic Chinese harmony of opposites. The humbling fact is that animals achieve such harmony better than humans. Unlike men, animals retain instinctive devices that end their conflicts short of murder. When one wolf defeats another in a fight for territory, the loser commonly exposes its jugular to the stronger opponent-a form of honorable surrender that the winner peaceably accepts without further aggression. Not only...
...commercial-aviation pioneer cut from the same mold as Eastern Air Lines' Eddie Rickenbacker, United's William A. Patterson and American's C. R. Smith, Trippe was the last of them to relinquish command. And the manner of his departure was typical of the reticent executive. Presiding over Pan Am's annual shareholders meeting, barely 24 hours after the airline's other top brass first got the word themselves, he casually dropped the news at the end of a 45-minute speech on company finances. When 62-year-old President Harold E. Gray, his hand...
...endorsement of the college's dean, involves affiliating with Newton's Mount Ida Junior College. The chief stumbling block in the affiliation plan is that Calvin Coolidge and Portia would name only a minority of the trustees of the new board. "But our trustees just don't want to relinquish power," says Coolidge student body president Pat Vinti of Chelmsford...
Next, there is the Music Hall. The old Metropolitan, it is still called by older Bostonians. It is the second largest movie house in the country. It seats over 4,000. The Music Hall tends to stick with sure hits. Whenever the Boston schools relinquish their charges for a week of vacation, the management never fails to be ready with the latest James Bond extravaganza or yet another Italian western. At $1.50 a head, 4,000 popcorned kids make for a pretty respectable showing on a rainy Saturday afternoon...