Word: yielded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...predecessors did. Moreover, he has an air of no-nonsense realism that has been sadly lacking in South Viet Nam. To Saigon newsmen's howls of outrage over his newspaper shutdown, Ky replied with icy calm: "Communists don't shout, they shoot. If I don't yield to the Communists, I certainly will not yield to shouters...
...most spectacular golf areas in the world. The Monterey Peninsula is spangled with five golf courses, which are set off by the sound of Pacific rollers soughing in on the rocks and cliffs of a coastline overhung with the etched shapes of the famed Monterey cypresses, which need yield nothing in beauty to Italy's justly celebrated sea pines. Deer wander across the golf course near Del Monte Lodge, the sumptuous peninsula hotel. Pebble Beach is a favored course of such diverse luminaries as Dwight Eisenhower and Bing Crosby...
...traditionally sugar-based economy as a mere device for capitalist exploitation, and embarked on a drive for immediate industrialization. The grandiose plans never got off the ground, chiefly because of mismanagement and lack of funds. In the meantime, Cuba's sugar crops dwindled to nearly half the old yield, and Castro fell deeper into debt to his Iron Curtain partners...
...would have to run at large in 1966 (as did all representatives in 1964). Two weeks later, the State Supreme Court, while agreeing that the present appor tionment was unconstitutional, asserted its own jurisdiction, gave the senate until this July 1 to realign itself. The federal court refused to yield jurisdiction. But the Supreme Court ordered the federal court to step aside and give the Illinois bench "a reasonable time" to achieve reapportionment. - Declined to rule on the constitutionality of an Idaho reapportionment plan, adopted by the legislature last March, and passed the question back to a three-judge federal...
...Johnson made the presentation at the White House. And she, after refreshing her memory by rereading some of his works, declared him just to her taste. He avoids "a dreary reliance on four-letter words," said the First Lady, and his marching, singing prose makes "the commonplaces of living yield the gaiety, the wonder and the vault of the human adventure...