Word: relinquishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mather-Dunster defense, which had been reliable for the span of the game, once again tightened up and halted apossibly devastating drive, forcing Winthrop to relinquish the ball with 54 seconds remaining in the game...
...should Begin's refusal to relinquish the West Bank of the Jordan River, so that it might become an independent Palestinian state, be an irritant in U.S.Israeli relations? The U.S. should ask King Hussein why, when he administered this land between 1948 and 1967, he did not establish an independent state for the Palestinians...
From his ruthless elimination of potential rivals to his obvious fondness for the perks of office, all the signs indicate that having tasted power, Doe is in no hurry to relinquish it and return to the barracks. He has started to shed some of the military image; in-place of the camouflage fatigues and jaunty beret that were his trademark in the early post-revolution period, he now occasionally wears well-tailored suits. The modest Honda Civic in which he drove himself last year is seldom seen these days. Instead, he races around Monrovia in a chauffeured black Mercedes-Benz...
Under the Carter Administration, the U.S. actively joined international efforts to make South Africa relinquish Namibia. In 1978, with U.S. approval, the U.N. Security Council passed Resolution 435, which called for South African military withdrawal from Namibia and elections for a national constituent assembly under the aegis of a U.N. peace-keeping force. Last December it looked as if South Africa would grudgingly go along. A month later, it changed its mind. Among other things, the South Africans apparently feared that SWAPO would win control of Namibia at the polls, in the manner of Marxist Robert Mugabe last year...
...Crimson, however, did not choke, worry or whine, and Den Hartog, Maureen Finn, and Wisty Oppenlander scored three unanswered goals to give Harvard a lead it would not relinquish...