Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wake of his retreats he has left passions that could lead only to such sickening crimes as Birmingham's Sunday school bombing. Today, many Alabamians who yield nothing to Wallace in their devotion to segregation accuse him of bringing about the bombing almost as surely as if he himself had planted the dynamite sticks. Says Birmingham Real Estate Dealer Sidney Smyer, 66, a lifelong segregationist and former state legislator who in recent months has tried to act as a mediator in his city's racial disputes: "There wouldn't have been any trouble if Wallace had stayed...
...close the door on sure knowledge of the survivability of our second-strike capability, the very capability which, until now, has been the shield of peace in this world. We halt the search for the widest span of nuclear know-how at a point where the total test yields of the Soviet are a full third greater than our own. I will vote against this treaty because it will erode our military strength. I will vote against this treaty because it preserves the enemy's advances in high-yield weaponry while freeing them to overtake our lead...
Official Consternation. At the Interparliamentary Union Conference in Belgrade, where she represented South Viet Nam, Mme. Nhu stole the show with her graceful pink aodai. There was fire in her eyes and in her words. The Diem government would never yield to "perfidious blackmailing attacks," she exclaimed. What about the concern for South Viet Nam's Buddhists voiced by the Vatican? Pope Paul VI is too "easily worried," retorted Mme. Nhu. Her acid remark supplemented earlier comments on the same subject on French television: "As a Catholic, I am only required to believe in the dogmas of my religion...
Last week the school board took under consideration a proposal to bring in a panel of outside educators to draw up a plan for eliminating segregation in the city's schools. Willis has already begun to yield...
Some firms regard their reputation for providing a sustained yield as so valuable that they dig deep into their reserves when earnings are too low to cover the outlay. This is all right, says Harvard Business School Economist John Lintner, "when the earnings decline is pretty surely temporary. Management will be very often serving stockholders best by maintaining dividend payments and protecting the price of the stock." But some industries have persisted too long in this rearguard action-and steel is one of them. While earnings dropped year after year and the industry lagged in modernization, steelmen kept rewarding stockholders...