Word: relinquished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...race turned into a battle for second right away when Jennings struck up a fast pace and took the leadearly on, a spot she would not relinquish during the race. For the first mile, which was smooth and flat, Beckford held her ground in second with a split of 5:20 closely followed by a small pack of other runners...
...Foreign Secretary must now try his luck on a new set of problems, namely the transitional arrangements. His plan calls for the Muzorewa government to repeal the 1965 Unilateral Declaration of Independence, dissolve the Salisbury Parliament and relinquish its own power...
Abrams said he disagrees with McDonough's interpretation of the assembly's constitution, but added he would relinquish his second seat...
...Nathan stretches to the far-fetched in his attempt to imagine real life. Several plot contrivances mar the novel. But its richness and vitality cannot be overstated. It reads quickly, much like a longish (180 pages) short story, and so stimulating a novel is hard to relinquish to the bookshelf. The Ghost Writer ends too soon...
...often as I won. John Ehrlichman considered mine a cowardly procedure and decided he would teach me how to deal with Laird. Following the best administrative theory of White House predominance, Ehrlichman, without troubling to touch any bureaucratic or congressional bases, transmitted a direct order to Laird to relinquish some Army-owned land in Hawaii for a national park. Laird treated this clumsy procedure the way a matador handles the lunges of a bull. He accelerated his plan to use the land for two Army recreation hotels. Using his old congressional connections, he put a bill through the Congress that...