Word: relinquish
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...first to realize that World War I, with its unprecedented mobilization of national economies, had taught countries new economic tricks and controls they would be loth to relinquish. In 1919 he was British financial adviser at Versailles, resigned in mid-conference. The same year, in his eloquent Economic Consequences of the Peace, he told why the peace treaties would be unworkable. So much of what he said then later came true that men began calling him Cassandra...
...only complete security. Neither Albert Einstein's nor Walter Lippmann's chapter succeeds in more than indicating a satisfactory plan for such an organization. But Einstein shows clearly the functions the organization must undertake, while Lippmann sets forth original and cogent evidence that the world is ready to relinquish the concept of national sovereignty. The whole report asserts with great force of logic, if without trimmings of eloquence, that we are either ready to give up national sovereignty, or we are ready for destruction...
...book hardly tries to prove that Schweitzer is the world's greatest living man. But it does give recognition to a little-known "scholar's scholar." At 30, Albert Schweitzer decided to relinquish his honors as Europe's No. 1 authority on Bach, and as an organist and organ-builder, theologian, philosopher, historian, preacher, teacher and author-to live out his life, and live his faith, in French Equatorial Africa. There, 41 years later, he is still at work...
Britons welcomed the Byrnes and Vandenberg speeches as at least indirect backing. Though the U.S. was not likely to guarantee the British Empire against rising colonial peoples, minimum U.S. interests require that Russia does not replace Britain in any major area which Britain may relinquish...
...King and Hans Estin, both Freshmen, the ski team held a strong third place after Saturday's downhill and slalom events only to relinquish it Sunday when the cross-country and jumping scores were tallied at the Vermont Ski Union meet on Mt. Mansfield...