Word: yielded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will the National Rifle Association and those reluctant Senators and Representatives yield the floor and recognize how desperately this country needs a gun-control...
...process should yield "90 per cent of the same people" for the program, Maguire said adding that the parental contribution level is not "detailed and customized enough," to choose accurately those who need work-study jobs the most...
EXPERIMENTAL SUBJECTS WANTED--but to be subjected to what? They don't always know. How can they be protected, and what should they be protected from? Scientific experiments have yielded the Theory of Relativity, the transistor, the computer and lots of other Space Age goodies. Think what it might yield when applied to human beings...
Like two boxers at the opening bell, the U.S. and North Viet Nam warily circled the ring, each testing the other's reach. Each side was determined to yield nothing in advance, and each was probing for an opening that would lead to a position of strength. Lyndon Johnson characteristically described the situation in the midst of a conversation in his White House office. Striking a prizefighter's pose, he said: "I'm holding my left hand open and out in front of me, saying, 'Come on, let's talk...
Some investors, to be sure, hurriedly sold stocks before last week's deadline-often at big losses-and put the money instead into paintings, antiques and diamonds, investments that yield no immediate returns. But many tax consultants advised against such action, reasoning that the investment-income measure is merely a prelude to a more sweeping "wealth tax" on all assets, whether they produce income or not. At a loss as to how to advise his clients in the meantime, one tax man concluded bitterly that "it just doesn't pay to have money...