Word: yielded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kansas-born Novelist Julia Siebel seems intent on becoming the laureate of quiet lives desperately lived. In two novels about her native state, there is an occasional wheat-crop failure, but the yield of domestic unhappiness is as invariable as debt and taxes. In The Narrow Covering (TIME, July 30, 1956), careless and malevolent death bore down on ordinary prairie folk to whom Author Siebel assigned hardly a pleasant, let alone a happy, moment. For the Time Being is relatively upbeat. No one dies. Yet no one lives, either; like a quarter section of Spoon River Anthology, the human crop...
Compared to some of the atomic devices that the Russians have exploded since Sept. 1, the low-yield (probably not more than one kiloton) U.S. test seemed as tame as a firecracker. But it carried the U.S. a step forward in its tactical weapons development. And unlike Russia's atmospheric explosions-which have scattered radioactive debris from far beyond its borders-the U.S. test caused not a particle of fallout...
Attack. Long before dawn one morning last week, a company of Indian troops backed by Irish armored cars surrounded the Elisabethville post office' held as a communications center by a Tshombe garrison. In French and Swahili, demands were megaphoned that the garrison yield the building. The answer was the rattle of machine guns. The U.N. returned fire, and for two hours streams of red tracer bullets crossed each other in the predawn darkness. An Indian soldier was hit in the face; he screamed. A Katanga gendarme, hit in the belly, fell from a second-story window, picked himself...
...Kirby points out that Hong Kong, Formosa and Red China's Kwangtung province all get more or less the same weather. And the weather has unquestionably been bad. But while Hong Kong's crops are off only 8%, and Formosan output is down 13%, Kwangtung's yield has fallen 30%. His conclusion: Red China's problem is not just weather, but a wide demoralization of the peasantry...
...government is moving even faster in the countryside. Hopeful that higher-yield rubber trees will enable Malayan rubber to compete with synthetics in the years ahead, Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Razak, 39, is trying to get 50,000 more acres a year under cultivation. To work the land, he is resettling farmers in self-contained communities, like those once organized for defense against Communist attacks. In one settlement in Bilut Valley, 483 Malay, Chinese and Indian families, most of whom have never farmed before, are living peacefully together, even though the Chinese breed pigs, which the Malays abhor...