Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...show the public how "Congress shackles itself with inadequate political campaign laws, archaic rules, the seniority system, secrecy, understaffing, and grossly deficient ways to obtain crucial information." Most essentially, Who Runs Congress is intended to reveal "a Congress which does not lead, but is led, and which continues to relinquish its constitutional authority and leadership role in government...
...Oswald's decision to talk to the prisoners, but it contended that he should not have negotiated with more than 1,200 rioters looking on. Nor should newsmen and TV cameras have been permitted into the yard, thereby giving rioters a national limelight that they were unwilling to relinquish. The 33 "citizen observers"-an unwieldy group including Radical Lawyer William Kunstler and New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, were too "racked with ideological differences" to be much help. The commission agreed that granting total amnesty was impossible, but chided officials for not making sufficiently clear to the rioters that...
Newsweek staffers were well into their editorial week last Thursday morning when Editor Kermit Lansner called his department heads together. In typical low-key fashion, he read them a short statement. He will relinquish operational control of the magazine this week, Lansner said, and after a vacation he will move into the newly created post of editorial director...
...Community Leader Motke Ben-Ya'acov proudly shows an Israeli identity card that gives his address as "Dikla, Northern Sinai." "There's no chance we'll ever leave," says Ben-Ya'acov. "The government will never give back El Arish." Nor is Israel likely to relinquish the oil town of Abu Rodeis to the south on the Gulf of Suez, where Israelis are pumping 18,000 tons daily of what was formerly Egyptian oil. The new school in Abu Rodeis last week proudly graduated its first six students. Eight tour buses a day visit the town...
...proclaiming IT is POSSIBLE TO STOP SMOKING, EMANCIPATE YOURSELF IN FIVE DAYS began to brighten the dreary walls of lava stone buildings. Merchants reported a rush on licorice drops, peanuts, chewing gum, after-dinner mints and other tobacco substitutes. A man of God?his own flesh too weak to relinquish the weed completely?preached a sermon of support from his pulpit in the town's basilica. "I am not one of the courageous 155," acknowledged Father Leon Dumas. "But I have rationed myself down from ten to five cigarettes...