Word: relinquished
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...letter claimed that Greenberg, a white civil rights lawyer, was objectionable because of his “apparent hostility toward historically predominantly Black educational institutions, his adamant refusal to relinquish directorship of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to a Black attorney, and his opposition to Black student associations on predominantly white campuses...
...jobs were low paying. However, as explicit racism ebbed (allowing for more prosperity or wage equality), fewer blacks had to participate in the labor force to make the same adjusted income. Third, the decrease in labor participation most likely has been a result of the unwillingness of whites to relinquish the best jobs to blacks no longer willing to work in low-paying jobs...
...past sirens, singing, “She’ll never have what I have / She’s not me and she never will be.” It’s a cheeky kiss-off to anyone who thinks the Queen of Pop is ready to relinquish her crown. She even goes after her co-writer’s sound on “Miles Away,” the song that chronicles a couple’s attempt to stay together even with an ocean between them. With its dreamy chorus and hooks aplenty, it?...
...years ago in Annapolis, Navy raced to victory over the Harvard varsity lightweights in the last 500 meters of the race. History repeated itself on Saturday when the Crimson fell to the Midshipmen—and Georgetown—in the final stretch of the race to relinquish the Haines...
...Green would have to drop all four games this weekend and see Brown take three of four from second-place Yale to relinquish its spot atop the Rolfe Division standings and its spot in the Ivy League Championship Series. But even if Harvard can’t spoil Dartmouth’s plans, it has some of its own: to prove its worth to the rest of the league after an unprecedented 1-22 start to its season...