Word: relenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speech was a pastiche of cliches from other party pep talks going back 15 years. But it created precisely the evangelistic effect that he had hoped for: the delegates jumped to their feet and gave him a proloneed, heartfelt ovation. Even Dissenter Cousins joined the cheering, ready to relent a bit. "We can differ on one specific issue. But it doesn't mean we're not right behind the government on all else...
Abernathy telephoned King, and together the two ministers marshaled a 382-day boycott that eventually caused the bus company to relent. It was about this time that Abernathy first tasted violence. At 2:10 on a January morning in 1957, the front of his house was dynamited, fortunately injuring no one inside...
...maybe, just maybe, the Administration will relent and give us one more chance. One more mixer--a chance to relive times that may never be again. A chance for Harvard, students to be on their best behavior and rewin the privilege that they have lost with their unconscionable past mischief...
...Nigerian air force base at the Northern administrative capital of Kaduna. In between times, it dropped thousands of leaflets on federal territory, warning of "the terrible consequences of continued collaboration" with Gowon. "Now that we are on the offensive," Ojukwu announced over Radio Biafra, "we shall not relent until every single enemy soldier on Biafran soil is destroyed, more territories of Nigeria liberated, and the enemy vanquished...
...Need Help." Since most expenditures are mandated by law, school boards have little choice but to keep resubmitting the defeated budgets to the voters until they relent and approve them. Similarly, most bond issues, after being stripped of a few thousand dollars of frills, pass the second time around: parents generally see the need for new schools when their children start attending overcrowded classes on a shift schedule. But many educators admit that local communities can no longer be counted upon as the primary source of support for public schools. "We need help," says Cincinnati's Miller. "If citizens...