Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...change that law." Anyhow, he continued, he would favor giving only the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe-presently General Lyman Lemnitzer-a degree of authority about nuclear weapons. He carefully explained that he was not talking about long-range, strategic missiles, but rather about the low-yield, tactical weapons around which Western Europe's defense is now built-"ones small enough to be carried on the shoulder, small enough to be launched from aircraft. I'm fearful of the day if it ever comes -and I hope it doesn't-when Russia might attack our bases with these...
...Washington's Democratic Senator Warren Magnuson, the Commerce Committee chairman, heard of what was happening and hurried out of the committee room. Cried he: "Let's break this up." At that point Thurmond, apparently tired of sitting on Yarborough, said with characteristic gallantry: "I will have to yield to the order of my chairman...
Lodge scoffed at Barry Goldwater's suggestion that low-yield atomic weapons might be used to defoliate jungle supply trails. Said he: "We defoliate every day. Using an atomic bomb to defoliate is like using an atomic bomb to light a cigarette. We use weed killer." Lodge also clashed head on with the report of a committee of 13 Republican Congressmen, led by Michigan's Gerald Ford, which scored the Kennedy Administration for actively aiding the overthrow of the Diem regime. Lodge angrily denied that the Administration had been involved in any way. Ford advised that American officers...
Idaho (14): This week's state convention vote should yield 14 for Goldwater...
...innuendo," when suddenly Case bolted from his seat. "Mr. President," he shouted to Teddy Kennedy, who was then in the chair, "a point of personal privilege!" Mansfield ignored him. Case, arms waving and face purpling, kept shouting. By now, Mansfield was getting pretty hot himself. "I do not yield the floor for any purpose!" he cried. For nearly 20 minutes, the two men yelled across the aisle at each other while Teddy and Parliamentarian Charles Watkins flipped frantically through the rule book. Not quite sure of what to do, Democrat Teddy repeatedly thumped his gavel and ordered Republican Case...