Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...June Party leaders laid plans to train the Freedom delegation at the Highlander Folk Center in Nashville just prior to the National Convention. When several sympathetic Northern politicians disapproved, citing the Communist connotations of the Center, a Party official snapped coldly, "So you want us to yield to McCarthyism...
...June Party leaders laid plans to train the Freedom delegation at the Highlander Folk Center in Nashville just prior to the National Convention. When several sympathetic Northern politicians disapproved, citing the Communist connotations of the Center, a Party official snapped coldly, "So you want us to yield to McCarthyism...
...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...
...potentially enormous market in Russia and its European satellites. So far, one of the main attractions has been Nikita Khrushchev's seven-year program to spend $42 billion developing Russia's lagging chemical industry. Even the West German government is under considerable pressure from businessmen to yield to such commercial temptations. Says Berthold Beitz, Krupp's general manager: "We are excluding ourselves from this big market in the future unless we offer the same terms as our Western competitors do." And Russian trade commissars, knowing a good ploy when they see it, are hopping from capital...
Grudging Consent. It was up to Makarios to 1) yield to the Turkish threat, 2) try to negotiate some concession in return for yielding, or 3) stand pat in the hope that Turkey was bluffing or would be dissuaded by the U.S. or through fear of Russian and Greek intervention...