Word: relinquish
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...world merely because we are too afraid to imagine and pursue their solutions.Blind optimism is perhaps the surest route to true pessimism; hope alone will leave us, in the end, with mere hopelessness. But an educated, critical hope is essential to transforming our world, and if we relinquish it, we relinquish our humanity as well. There are simply too many untested feasibilities, possibilities for a more just world, for us to simply accept the present as our infinite future. Henry Seton ’06 is a social studies concentrator in Adams House. His column appears regularly...
...power play goal from sophomore left wing Laura Brady 5:47 into the third period put the Crimson up 2-1, giving the team its first lead of the game—a lead it would never relinquish. Sifers and junior right wing Liza Solley, who finished with three points against UConn, assisted on the score...
Faster than you can say “Ko Yada,” the Crimson responded with a 10-0 run of its own. Holy Cross tied it up at 43, but a Brian Cusworth free throw moments later gave Harvard a lead it would not relinquish...
...million Palestinians.'' Annexing the occupied territories would dilute the Jewish character of Israel, he believed. But military rule would mean endless war. In the 1992 elections, Rabin campaigned as the man who could bring the country peace with security. But to succeed, Rabin told Israelis, they would have to relinquish a central part of their identity -- their sense of fearful isolation. ''For many years, by necessity, by threat from wars, terror,'' he explains...
Pity the skateboarder who messes up on a jump and slams down on his feet or a skier who hits a slalom gate at 70 m.p.h. While better protection is the obvious answer, skaters want thin sneaker soles so they can feel their board, and skiers are reluctant to relinquish any flexibility. Enter snowboard-loving British inventors Richard Palmer and Phil Green, both 39, and their new material, d3o, which can perform a few high-speed tricks of its own. d3o's molecules flow as an athlete moves, but on impact they bind together instantaneously to absorb shock, then unlock...