Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...audience, mostly representatives of Soviet, East German and Eastern European governments, cheered. Said Nikita: "We shall sign the peace treaty. We shall defend peace with all our force. We shall not yield. I have said it all before. But repetition is the mother of wisdom...
...money-raising problems. The Treasury has been forced to hike interest rates on-its short-term Treasury bills to above 2½%, thus tempting commercial banks to "play the spread" by borrowing money from the Federal Reserve at 2½% and putting it into Government securities that yield more. The Fed's discount-rate increase will stop this practice, was timed to take place between Treasury financings so as not to upset the market...
...oupposing view was presented by Harold Taylor, President of Sarah Lawrence College. He criticized the description of women as "manpower," suggesting that women's education should not yield to "the demands of public opinion...
...increasingly obvious that the selection of a field of concentration must be made at the beginning of Sophomore year, if at all possible. A choice delayed to the middle of Sophomore year is risky but conceivable. As far as Honors goes, no choice made any later is likely to yield a successful Honors candidate...
...Tree's hero Harry Wesley is an English Nobel-prizewinning biologist with a yen to help humanity. His secret weapon is desoxyribonucleic acid. Injected into a plant or tree, this chemical will increase phenomenally the size and quality of the yield. An enterprising Italian government official named Pozzo feels that this is just the cure for the barren poverty of southern Italy. Above the Bay of Salerno, on some terraced soil blessed by Pozzo's cardinal uncle, Harry Wesley sets out to grow a super...