Word: yielded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus, if we had acted on this perspective at Geneva, we would have accepted the risk that there might be some undetected small-yield nuclear explosions in exchange for the establishment of a supranational authority in the area of arms control. Now in the aftermath of the Summit collapse, we should at least resist the urge to resume our own testing. The same determination to risk for peace would prevent us from undertaking a program of civil defense, as this would provoke moves from the other side, and increase the psychological danger of war by making war seem more tolerable...
...first suggestions for meaningful gestures, the Committees list a nuclear ban agreement (even if small yield explosions cannot be reliably detected), a rejection of civil defense efforts (which add to psychological tensions), and the conversion to constructive tasks of laboratories now working on chemical and biological weapons. Tocsin agrees, and goes one further, suggesting that the U.S. set up a test ban inspection system in this country and invite the Soviet to reciprocate...
...platers "We're just looking for a pair of horses with the right traits that will dominate m the offspring," she explains. "The chance of producing a winner from two outstanding horses is smaller than if one of the parents is great. Two pluses don't always yield a plus in horse breeding...
...Randall finds that most are notably serious and responsible executives who are not only likely to be unimpressed by the playboy approach but are often offended by it. The salesman forgets that "in the long run, the product must sell itself," and that it is bad tactics to yield to "the temptation of selling himself instead of his merchandise." Moreover, says Randall, expense-account lushes "are notoriously poor judges of people," who often take a man to a nightclub when he would rather be home with his family, to the race tracks when he would rather be puttering with...
...other country might consider itself blessed to hear what the Department of Agriculture told the U.S. last week: "Gains in yield prospects give promise of making 1960 the nation's biggest crop year." In the U.S., the news produced a shudder...