Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians, the U.S. State Department explained, "are seeking to reserve to themselves war booty which they had previously agreed to relinquish, as well as the greater share of Austria's oil-refining capacity and oil-exploration areas, of which they were to have received only some 60% under the treaty document." So far, Russia's only "concession" has been to drop its support of claims to Carinthia made by Tito's rebellious Yugoslavia...
...Israelis pointed out that their constitution already guarantees free access to holy places (however, "subject to the requirements of national security, public order and decorum"). As for internationalization, that was flatly out as far as Israel was concerned. It would rather go to war again than relinquish the City of the Temple, its strongest national symbol. "If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem," Israelis read grimly from the 137th Psalm, "let my right hand forget her cunning . . ." The Jews were not forgetting...
...attempt to portray in paint the personification of the Carrick Hill area-one of the poorer Catholic districts in Belfast. An attempt to feel my way into a particular aspect of Catholic mysticism, essentially Irish." It was an attempt, said he, to show "the ecstatic otherness of relinquishing all because one has nothing at all to relinquish...
...people who might conceivably relinquish this sizable chuck of U.S. Steel 6%pf. are a unique group of local graduates who played Harvard hockey and who have never been able to completely give up the game to succeeding generations. If their hearts have been touched by the successful varsity exploits of 1948-49, a rink is in the offing...
...House, shrewd and peppery Sam Rayburn, 66, of Texas, will replace Joe Martin as Speaker. New York's durable Sol Bloom, 78, will take over the Foreign Affairs Committee from New Jersey's Charles A. Eaton. New York's tight-fisted John Taber will relinquish the Appropriations Committee purse strings to Missouri's Clarence Cannon, 69, who looks like a professional mourner and is always willing to give a sympathetic ear to an Administration request...