Word: yielded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mere Rhetoric. Still, the malaise that grips the decaying motor capital is unlikely to yield to short-term measures like a curfew-and even less to mere rhetoric and good intentions. As John Cardinal Dearden, the Archbishop of Detroit, put it last week, "We are called upon to rebuild the structure...
Roger Shaff of Camanche, Iowa, drills the seed corn every spring into the black soil of his 550 acres, harvests the heavy yield in the fall and feeds the corn to livestock that he sells. His life is his family and his land and his right to do things his way. C. Lee Mantle of Painesville, Ohio, is retired now from his real estate business. He founded it, saw it grow to a firm employing ten people. In his small corner of this country, it was a glorious adventure. He wants to make sure that that kind of opportunity...
...white Rhodesians seem determined never to yield that inch. Herbert Howe...
...left no authenticated will. Since his death, on April 5 in a jet ambulance over Texas, at least 36 purported Hughes wills have surfaced, but none of them appears to be genuine. Summa conducted a worldwide search but failed to turn up a signed document. The search did, however, yield an unsigned carbon of a 1954 will, written at the time Hughes set up the medical institute and transferred to it the ownership of Hughes Aircraft, then worth about $250 million in net assets. The strategy of the Summa people seems to be to present this carbon copy...
...each of the past six years, Georgia farmers have raised their yield per acre to a record (1975 figure: 3,320 lbs.). The total U.S. crop last year was almost 4 billion lbs., up nearly a billion pounds from 1970. About 40% of the crop that is used for food is made into peanut,butter; the rest is divided among candy bars, snacks or cooking oil. Some peanuts are even crushed into feed for pigs...