Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barrel, as was done in the U.S. bomb exploded over Hiroshima. The U.S. also used the implosion method in its earliest nuclear weapons. Although a surprising number of commentators assumed that use of implosion showed advanced skill by the Chinese, the AEC did not agree. "The low yield of the test," it said, "coupled with other information obtained from the radioactive debris indicates that the technology of the device is that which we would associate with an early nuclear test...
...MESS ON THE FARM. Despite his proud proclamations of expertise in agriculture (he devoted more speeches to crop yield, fertilizer and seed bulls than any 20 national leaders), Khrushchev's farm programs were disastrous. He fell for one oversimplified solution after another, kept reshuffling the administrative setup for agriculture, and dreamed of better fertilizer-all to little avail. His "virgin lands" scheme showed promise this year, thanks to a hopeful harvest, but it was too late. > "GOULASH" COMMUNISM. Most of his people cheered when he announced that Communism must first give people a decent life and then think about...
President Johnson confirmed that the Chinese had detonated a "low-yield" atomic bomb, but cautioned that "its military significance should not be over-estimated...
After 40 years with the magazine, however, Ted Weeks is not quite ready to yield his place at the top. As executive editor-a new Atlantic title-Manning will "reinforce" rather than replace the magazine's editorial helmsman. "It will be a sharing for the immediate years," said Weeks, at least "as far as one can see." After that, "what comes is in the lap of the gods...
...summer, the FDP had refused to discuss compromise, at one time publicly castigating Senator Paul Douglas for proposing a 50-50 seating solution. Before the convention such intransigence was essential to maintain a decent bargaining posture. However, as the Credentials Committee continued negotiating and the FDP refused to yield, many of the Party's allies became uneasy...