Word: yielded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clear Slap. Insiders say that Moscow at first actually seemed to yield on all the renegades' points. But suddenly the deliberations hit a snag. One explanation is that the Soviet leadership is divided over concessions to the Western individualists and hence did not want them down on paper. Another guess is that the Soviets did not really want the summit conference after all because it might emphasize the disunity of the Communist movement...
...tough elmwood and 47 in. of pine-and it has come to rest similarly intact (on the other hand, it has also been fired through cotton wadding and emerged misshapen). Lattimer has cut up two grains of this bullet's lead core and found they would yield 41 fragments-more than found in Connally's wounds. No one has estimated the weight of the metal X-rayed in or recovered from Connally at more than two grains. Thus, although this bullet is surprisingly undamaged, its condition does not mean it could not have hit both...
...himself in a court of law "has a fool for a client." Yet the Supreme Court recently ruled that the Sixth Amendment "grants to the accused personally the right to make his own defense." It also ruled, in the 1974 case involving the Nixon tapes, that a President "must yield to the demonstrated, specific need for evidence in a pending [federal] criminal trial." As a result of those rulings, Lynette ("Squeaky") Fromme will be acting as her own counsel when she goes on trial this week for attempting to assassinate President Ford, and she will be able to use testimony...
...book's longest and best-written story--"The Captain," in which the Michaels narrator, trying to win a job in a publishing company, goes to a dinner party and makes love with his prospective boss's wife. He tantalizes the boss with his own wife (but does not yield her) and concludes with a feat of manhood, screwing his own wife in the back seat of a cab. The narrator gets the job, while the boss finds consolation only in breaking wind at his departing guests...
...Bruins are sporting an attack which averages four goal per game and which has yet to yield a goal in league play. The Big Red has its feet full...