Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such a trip, many of the Israeli stereotypes of Arab laziness or incompetence are invalidated. It is true that the Arabs of the West Bank reap only half as many tons of wheat per dunam as the Jews in Israel, for instance, and that their yield in grapes or tomatoes is only one-third of the Israeli produce. But this is because much Arab labor is unskilled and there is a scarcity of capital investment in the predominantly agricultural economy of the West Bank. If one keeps that in mind one must conclude that the Arabs are doing well...
...When, in July 1861, Abraham Lincoln's hard-pressed Government sold a $50 million, 6% loan, redeemable in 1881, only by the device of marking each $100 of bonds down to $89.25, thus raising the interest yield...
...liberalization and change were demanding ever more freedom-and getting it. Perhaps most significant was the demand for a neutral foreign policy. Even a few years ago, Moscow would have rudely condemned or cruelly crushed those making such demands. Now, Russia's rukrs were apparently prepared to yield (see THE WORLD). And a key factor in the Czechoslovaks' insistence on neutrality was apparently the same sort of disaffection with the Viet Nam war that has been plaguing U.S. citizens. In Prague, the new-breed officials who are taking over believe that the conflict is in danger of getting...
Sophocles & White. Kennedy also showed that he will yield to no Republican in being beastly to Lyndon Johnson. In some of the strongest political invective yet heard this year, he harpooned the President for almost every problem facing modern America, from Viet Nam to water pollution, from urban riots to the suicide rate among American Indians. He paraphrased Sophocles on the sin of pride that inhibits a strong man from admitting his mistakes. In Kansas, he evoked the late William Allen White ("The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow"*) to show that someone past...
...should also be used, said Dr. Ralph Phillips, in treating several types of cancer for which it has been little employed because doctors did not expect it to do much good. He suggested that as many as ten types of sarcoma and some other cancers, even far advanced, will yield in some cases to supervoltage radiation...