Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they are absolutely dependent upon one another. The journalist must win the respect of the Lesbian because she is the only courageous person left to him and thus his "salvation." She desires the love of the flutter-brained coquette who being devotedly hetero-sexual, will not yield. This woman's vanity demands the Lesbian as a mirror because there are no mirrors in hell. The coquette, in turn, asks love of the journalist, who only wants to prove to himself that he is not a coward, yet he cannot make love to her with the Lesbian watching and taunting...
Bundy said, "I yield to no one in the strength of my advocacy of the residential college," but went on to say that he thought current and increasing pressures for college admission precluded any reduction in the size of the class. He regarded the decision to have forced commuters as one of a "series of painful choices." He said that the College had decided that while living in is desirable, it would be unreasonable to deprive forced commuters of some of the benefits of a Harvard education by rejecting them outright...
Harvard knew what Winterbauer was up to. At first, the Crimson tried to rush him. The Yale line did not yield, and consequently only once was Winterbauer hit before he could pass. For a while the Crimson covered receivers, halting the Yale drive that intervened between the third and fourth touchdowns. That...
...recovery in bonds was also significant for the stock market. With bond prices depressed, bond yields for the past year have been running at the highest levels since the Depression days of the 1930s, and consequently closer to stock yields. (Last week the average yield on high-grade corporate bonds was 4.8% v. 5.9% for the Dow-Jones industrials.) Since stocks are inherently more risky, many investors switched to bonds or did not invest at all. But bond dealers now think that the Fed's action has established a firm bottom for the bond market, and that bond prices...
...farce with a tragic ending is the characteristic Irish art form, the life and death of Sir Roger Casement make him a great Irishman. Many of his countrymen believe him to be so and periodically ask the British government to yield custody of his remains, which lie in quicklime within the walls of Pentonville Prison. Casement was hanged for treason in 1916, three months after the Dublin uprising of Easter Week. In the midst of World War I, he had landed from a German submarine on the coast of Kerry, ostensibly to foment rebellion. A boatload of rifles...