Word: rescindment
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...instruction was eliminated, the children insisted on praying together before beginning their lessons. When crucifixes were removed from the classrooms of another school, the pupils arranged to take turns bringing a crucifix from home. In one village outraged housewives stormed the school with brooms and forced the principal to rescind his ban on religious instruction...
...embattled Cambridge School Committee voted last night not to rescind the 17 protested appointments made on Dec. 11, and passed new motions which may weaken the taxpayers' law suit against the committee. The board's actions were vigorously protested by School Committeeman Judson T. Shaplin '42, associate dean of the School of Education, who has opposed the appointments from the beginning...
...committee's refusal to rescind the appointments will result in the referendum petition being sent to the City Council...
...last week the dues protest (TIME, Nov. 26) had snowballed into the biggest revolt in the Steelworkers' 20-year history. Spontaneously, over 100 of the union's 2,750 locals have passed resolutions for a special convention to rescind the dues hike, among them the 20,000-man Local 1014 at U.S. Steel's Gary (Ind.) plant, the Steelworkers' biggest unit. Even McDonald's home local 1272 at Jones & Laughlin's southside plant in Pittsburgh passed the protest resolution...
...officer and himself still on the payroll. "I cannot and will not sacrifice my own integrity and self-respect on the altar of economic security," he said. "Dr. Coggins has been severely persecuted and tormented, and the health department has collapsed. Practice the kind of Christianity you profess and rescind your action now! If you persist in this action, God pity...