Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major general at war's end, when he returned to American to steer it into the postwar age of commercial aviation. He resigned only last month as American's chief executive officer and remains chairman of the board, a post he will probably have to relinquish in order to avoid conflicts of interest at Commerce...
...FUTURE OF GERMANY, by Karl Jaspers. In a remarkable work of national selfcriticism, the German philosopher appeals to his countrymen to relinquish the dream of a perfectly ordered state and to forge a nation based on individual political and moral responsibility...
...happen there when you do something here," then it might avoid strangling, entangling commitments. The silver-aired Reischauer analyzed the Vietnamese situation 13 years ago just as the U.S. took over from the French. With the foresight he advocates for the Executive, Reischauer warned then, "The French failure to relinquish Indochina has put a heavy burden on the United States financially and could end by costing us dearly in lives...
...American educator has chosen to capitulate to one of the tendencies of his time; he agreed to relinquish his rational autonomy, and having made this specific decision, he is now incapable of regarding himself as anything more than the medium through which the course of the future blindly passes. But this logic unmasks the myth of neutrality--for it was the choice passivity, the commitment to subservience, which produced the observer's sense that he is the mere conductor of an irreversible process...
...Israelis have won a costly advantage, and they don't plan to relinquish it without a whimper as they have in the past. Without a doubt, the Old City of Jerusalem will remain in Israeli hands the other territories of the new "Israeli Empire" will be subject to negotiations. In addition to Jerusalem, the Israelis will require international guarantees -- with a strong commitment from the U.S.-- for the right of free passage not only through the Straits of Tiran but also through the locks of Suez. The Israelis undoubtedly will seek either official recognition from the Arab states...