Word: relinquish
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Heather had grabbed a terminal that morning and refused to relinquish it. She had 40 pages to type into her files that day, pages she wanted to cut and edit and perfect, but she was running out of time. The chances of being able to print anything out that day dimmed, and Heather had a vision that she would have to enlist every friend she had on Wednesday night to type the entire thesis because the printer was exhausted. She swore she'd tell every junior she knew never, never to try to type a thesis onto the computer...
Gordon's women never fully return to the religion they relinquish. They remain what Santayana once called "Catholic atheists." They are torn, nonbelievers in a Christian world. They sacrifice, remain uncomfortably independent but not free. They are unsettled but satisfied in their place before the Absolute in the company of women...
...cannot wholeheartedly support the Dowling committee reforms because we believe they hold out a false promise. In this University, one side, the administration and the Faculty, holds all the power. The other, the students, have none. And in a system like that, the powerful will not relinquish their authority voluntarily. It must be taken from them. Student power demands a formal role in all decisions. Perhaps cooperation is possible on issues like toilet paper, but on the central problems--University investments, for example--these changes proposed by the committee will be meaningless. We say take the money...
Although the Israeli delegates were prepared to relinquish some control over the occupied West Bank, they failed to reach an agreement with the Egyptian delegates on the future status of Jerusalem, the demilitarization of the West Bank and the right of return of the Palestinian refugees...
...expected to agree to sell some parts of Western Electric, its manufacturing arm. Another possible action is reorganization of Bell's long-distance division into an independent subsidiary under separate management. Finally, A T& T will probably relinquish its holdings in one or more of the 23 regional Bell telephone companies. The most likely candidates: Pacific Telephone and Telegraph, Cincinnati Bell, and Southern New England Telephone...