Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...retreat? Most Western analysts were certain that the Chinese backed down out of fear. Moscow's hints of preventive nuclear strikes finally convinced at least one faction of Peking's leadership that the Russians meant business and the time had come to face reality and yield before superior Soviet power. Another possibility, of course, was that the Chinese were simply buying time to get through a highly dangerous phase in the conflict and stop the shooting. That would be in line with one of Chairman Mao Tse-tung's dictums: "In defense, the immediate object...
...although they may eventually be able to predict quakes by carefully calculating earth stresses. Still more delicate would be the decision on the size of the bomb. The Miami seismologists-Cesare Emiliani, Christopher G. A. Harrison and Mary Swanson-say that the job probably could be done by high-yield nuclear devices of one to ten megatons, presumably H-bombs. But other seismologists point out that an explosion meant only to keep the earth's crust moving slightly may, in fact, make it lurch violently-and actually precipitate a major quake...
Halfback Mike Johnson broke loose on B.C.'s first set of downs and sprinted 55 yards to put the Eagles ahead almost immediately. When a poor center snap forced Harvard to yield possession moments later, B.C. scored again. this time on a 20-yard pass from quarterback Ray Rippman to Pete Lupoli...
...vindication of American technological genius, a daily spectacle of panoramic American social and political epiphanies, so that watching it is in part an act of self-congratulation. There is information given out in abundance. Yet consciousness of wrongs serves for moral conscience, and all social problems are expected to yield to a sufficiently brutal amount of revelation and analysis. There is a "special" for everything: possible life on the asteroids, the extinction of the sun, test-tube giraffes, housing, Eskimoes, hari-kari, cabbages, cornea transplants, insurance, ghettoes, suburbs, and Agnew. TV enervates us by its never-ending, relentless "exposure...
...have gazed upon little else. I admit that it is difficult to abstract from those tiny colored images, largely static, to the minds of those who watch TV eight hours a day. Watch Hugh Downs or Ed McMahon punch those Concentration buttons, as they organize the soothing pairs to yield prizes and bathe pasteurized viewers in the emulsified applause of the studio audience. You are conditioned. You must react with considerable dismay, therefore, maybe even impulsiveness, when They try to integrate Your school...