Word: relenting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...colorful remark. It may take some hounding. He may try to put them off with a "Can't talk to you now, guy" or a "Later, pal," displaying the side-of-the-mouth brusqueness he adopts when feeling besieged. Never mind. Sooner or later, usually sooner, he will relent. Prod him with questions. Why has he been critical of those huge screens towering behind outfield fences in so many parks that now sometimes compete with the game in progress? "Look," he will answer in spite of himself, "I'm not some kind of Luddite, baying at change." And then...
...need something to make us realize that the energy crisis has not, and will not, just go away and that we must not relent in our efforts to plan for the future. Perhaps the fear of another OPEC oil squeeze will remind us, again...
Even when Tierney told the 125 supporters at his rally, "There won't be a new mayor for Boston," they would not relent...
...White House almost canceled President Reagan's speaking engagement at the U.N., scheduled for this Thursday, after some Third World nations demanded that Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat be invited to speak as well. Only when a confrontation threatened to wreck the festivities did Arafat's sponsors relent...
Indeed, if Reagan were to relent in what now seems to be his uncompromising commitment to Star Wars, one conceivable outcome of the forthcoming negotiations might be an updated, modified version of the ABM treaty, combined with a cutback in offensive forces. What the strategic concept sees as the "period of transition" would in fact be the goal of the process. That would be a disappointment to those, like Reagan, who want to see arms control eliminate nuclear weapons from the face of the earth, but it would be a relief to others who believe that the best arms control...