Word: yielded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nonetheless, the British government was trying to enlist Washington and Pretoria in a joint diplomatic offensive to put pressure on Smith to yield-or resign. The message: the only way Soviet influence in black Africa can be contained is to satisfy the legitimate aspirations of Africa's black majorities...
...average tax burden could rise from 41% of income to between 43% and 47%. Before anyone could suggest the alternative of bilking the rich even more, Britain's "Iron Chancellor" pointed out that even if the government taxed away all income over $10,000, the revenues would yield only $800 million. That might just keep the nation awash in subsidized tea for one more year-but not much longer...
Though the stylebook aims at keeping language sacred, it does yield some ground in the area of the profane. Under "Obscenity, Vulgarity and Profanity," the manual explains that the Times will continue to present the news, as Times Patriarch Adolph S. Ochs decreed in 1896, "in language that is parliamentary in good society." But a mild profanity like Hell or damn, the manual says, "is really not offensive to a great degree" as long as it is not used as a matter of course...
...yield a foot to Franco's Fascists...
...Situation. The U.S. will have none of the Southern strategy. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger does not believe that the Communists will abide by the rules of democracy and yield power should they lose an election. He also fears that Communists in Western Europe's governments might leak NATO secrets to Moscow. On orders from Kissinger, U.S. diplomats called on a number of European Socialist leaders before the Helsingor meeting, urging them to reject any trend toward Communist alliances...