Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer of 1966 threatens to yield one of the ugliest harvests of racial violence in memory. Partly because of the desperate new militance symbolized by the rallying cry of black power, partly because of the white man's ineptitude and uncertainty in meeting the Negro's legitimate needs, there is hardly a major city in the U.S. that does not live with the fear of turmoil in the streets. Last week the train of death and destruction slashed deep scars in Cleveland, where Mayor Ralph Locher had ignored persistent warnings of Negro unrest, and scratched New York City...
...album's five successes are slick, mellifluous glances backward from a boy-girl breakup, "Most Likely You Go Your Way," and "One of Us Must Know." Like their ancestor from Opus 4, "It Ain't Me, Babe," these should yield the popular idiom a ripe harvest of epigrams...
...began as an average of prices, the total price of the stocks being divided by the number of stocks. In its first year (1896), the prices added up to $491, which was divided by twelve, the number of industrials then listed, to yield an average of 40.94. Over the years, the number of stocks listed rose to 30, but not the divisor. In fact, each time a split or stock dividend occurred, the divisor was lowered, otherwise the Dow would have dropped abruptly without a corresponding decline in the stocks' intrinsic worth...
...next detonation, now scheduled for Bastille Day, July 14, is likely to be relatively low-powered, as was the first. After that will come at least four higher-yield explosions, including the firing of devices laced with lithium and tritium, as important experiments toward ultimately developing the H-bomb. At one of the final explosions in late summer will be a very important guest. De Gaulle plans to stop off for a brief visit at the Polynesian site during his trip to Southeast Asia...
...greatest corporate opportunity is in fertilizer-the quickest way to spur the yield from the millions of farms still tilled by horse and hand in underdeveloped countries. In Taiwan. Mobil Oil and Allied Chemical have teamed with a local firm to build a $20 million urea-and-ammonia plant. Esso Chemical Co. is investing $200 million in fertilizer factories in 13 areas as disparate as Aruba and Malaysia. In the Philippines, Esso built a fertilizer plant and sent teams of native salesmen out into the paddies to show suspicious farmers how much more money they could earn by using agricultural...