Word: relinquished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best lead the Commonwealth from within the Common Market, where she can help to lower tariffs, pare discriminatory internal taxes, and channel Europe's fast-growing investment funds to underdeveloped nations. The only alternative to Britain's membership, as Macmillan, Heath & Co. see it, would be to relinquish all claims to big-power status and resign herself, like 18th century Venice, to continued isolation and impoverishment...
Different Stories. After her mother's arrest, giddy, publicity-eager Sylvia Brühne spilled an eerie story to police and press. Vera, she said, had only pretended her willingness to relinquish the estate...
...kidding, we're serious. There is an elephant race next week in California. We want to enter a Harvard elephant. Today is the crucial day. We must accept our option on the four-ten, 11-feet Jumbo mammal Senita or relinquish her to the barbariane of Yale or Washington State. Gall KI 7-2211 today with pledges for the Harvard Elephant Fund. This could be the sports event of the sixties...
...press conference in Boston yesterday morning, Hughes, professor of History, announced his candidacy for the United States Senate seat which Benjamin '39 will relinquish this term...
Referring to the resignation, President Pusey said, "It is quite understandable that, in view of his recent illness, Dean Teele should wish to relinquish the arduous and unremitting pressures of the office he as so ably filled for the past seven years." Pusey added "His impending departure from the University gives us a sense of deep loss, yet, we sympathize fully with his decision...