Word: rescinded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announcement of the four-bit board cut, Mr. Heaman spoke generously about students voluntarily limiting food and juice portions. In return, students can at least expect cooperation when they legally leave Cambridge for a few days. No drum rolls or bombast is needed. The secret order should rescind itself just as quietly as it came...
...number of legislatures in favor of this amendment has crept alarmingly near the number needed for a convention, lower and middle-income groups have begun a long-delayed counterattack. So far, they have convinced seven states to rescind their resolutions. Massachusetts should become the eighth. The bill to repeal the resolution, now before the Constitutional Law Committee, should be reported favorably and passed. Since no one can accurately predict future expenses, the Government should not limit its future budgets according to pre-War II needs...
...week's end, the Associated Press Managing Editors Association asked the President to rescind his "censorship at the source." Said the association: it is a "dangerous instrument of news suppression...
Liberal leader Clement Davies rose last week in the House of Commons and said: "I beg to move that this House deplores the decision to continue the banishment of Tshekedi Khama from the Bamangwato Territory . . . and calls upon His Majesty's Government to rescind the order and allow him to dwell freely within the territory of his tribe...
While the debate went on, automen were open in charging that they had been double-crossed by Washington. After G.M. and Ford had raised their prices-and Valentine had requested them to rescind the increases-the automen had trekked to Washington with charts and figures to show that labor costs had risen 11% and that materials had jumped anywhere from 7% in steel to 300% in natural rubber this year...