Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think it is possible to control such a situation with effective and tight leadership." Instead, Daley did nothing but encourage force by making it clear long before the convention that he considered the protesters to be an ill-kempt, subversive and alien breed to whom the city would not yield an inch. And in the wild melees shown on TV, few officers seemed to be around to urge a more temperate attitude...
...police efficiency. In blunt and unequivocal language, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has now reversed that decision. Said Judge John Minor Wisdom: "If, police efficiency were an end in itself, the police would be free to put an accused on the rack. Police efficiency must yield to constitutional rights...
...figures in the middle ground, Mayer declared, were all typical of the master's hand. With that, Samuel H. Kress bought the painting. Was Berenson wrong? Perhaps. In later years, even he grudgingly admitted that the painting had been done "in part" by Giorgione. But he refused to yield on his main point that "it was probably finished by Titian...
Accepting this premise, the White House, along with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, has been in no mood to yield to the North Vietnamese demand that the U.S. halt all bombing of the North as the price of advancing the Paris negotiations. Rather, Washington insists that Hanoi make some parallel gesture. "All they have to do," said Defense Secretary Clark Clifford last week, "is get word to us that they have reduced the level of combat and will continue to reduce the level of combat, and that that constitutes a de-escalatory step." What Washington wants is private or public...
Differences have sharpened within his own Labor Party this year; three Cabinet Ministers have resigned over policy disputes and Wilson's high-handed ways. Though no challenger loomed, many in Britain thought that Wilson would soon have to yield power to a leader who could command more respect. But this week, as Parliament recesses, Harold Wilson has snapped back sufficiently to ensure that he will be at the helm when the Labor Party holds its national conference in September...