Word: relinquishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plight of the Filipino people. To them, independence is a "bright bauble, merely a gaudy word filled with vague but glorious implications." It is foisted upon them by politicians who themselves doubt its advisability. Should the Filipinos still want independence in 1946 (when the U. S. is willing to relinquish its sovereignty), the U. S. will kill most of their exports with prohibitive tariffs. Their domestic economy demolished, the Philippines could not hope to escape Japanese control through economic (if not military) conquest...
Rose has not been forced to relinquish it entirely. Showman Todd has at least forced him to share it. Last week in Chicago, Showman Todd opened the biggest theatre-restaurant ever, Michael Todd's Theatre-Cafe, in the old Rainbow Ballroom which housed the high-priced French Casino during the Chicago World's Fair...
...dictum. Last week the President put on his velvet gloves, said he did not expect to have to use the power. This week the airline operators fell into line, agreed to turn over to the military services all the recently delivered engines that they could spare, further promised to relinquish $7,500,000 worth of equipment on order...
Well he knew that the British had prepared a reception for his troops as hot as the man-killing sun which danced off his pith helmet. Not without a fight would the British relinquish their airport, their desert training post and railhead of their vital line curling back 165 miles along the coast of Africa's eastern horn to Alexandria. Middle East Commander Lieut. General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell was handicapped by having far fewer troops than Graziani. Even so, they were not spear-hurling Ethiopians nor rock-rolling Albanians but a hotchpotch of crack British units, Punjabis...
Konoye's weakness is in his nerves. He runs away from himself. As a boy he wanted to relinquish his title and go to the U. S. as an immigrant. He uses his frail health as a sort of storm cellar, into which he retires whenever he sees a political twister coming. Offered the Premiership after the bloody February 26 Revolt of 1936, he retired to his "sick" bed and did not get up until someone else had been appointed. When he finally did become Premier, he lost eight pounds in his first week in office. A prolonged "cold...