Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Passman seemed singularly unimpressed. After the meeting, he snapped: "I'll go to the White House when I'm invited, and I'll be polite and I'll listen. But if the day comes when I have to yield my own convictions, fully supported by facts, then I'll go home." Instead of going home, he went straight back to his subcommittee and forced through a cut of $800 million, from the $3.6 billion authorization to an appropriations recommendation of $2.8 billion. Johnson was furious, called in reporters for a statement: "The proposed reductions...
...wisdom," Khrushchev insisted; it is just that the U.S. uses almost twice as much fertilizer as the Soviet Union on about half the acreage. Through all this brave talk ran the admission of Russia's disastrous agricultural failures. One arresting figure: although acreage increased 7% since last year, yield actually dropped...
...seductive or exploitative in many ways, so are the values against which he is fighting. "Life," as he told the forum, "gets you coming or going." Perhaps he is painfully aware of the elements in his own character that he condemns in others; his complexity is elusive. "I yield to no one in my cotempt for the young American male, with his need to make a conquest; to prove himself," Goodman says. Yet much of his own need for contact takes the form of personal conquest...
ARCHAEOLOGISTS are a rare sight on TIME covers: ancient history usually has to yield to current history. But the subject has long had an interest for us; in fact, in an earlier day in TIME'S history, one editor decreed that archaeology stories should appear in the magazine at frequent intervals, and always under the same spare heading: DIGGERS...
...CIVIL RIGHTS. "Unless we are willing to yield up our destiny of greatness among the civilizations of history, Americans-white and Negro together -must be about the business of resolving the challenge which confronts us now. Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact...