Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Underground Testing. A Soviet crash program to build and equip underground test facilities could enable them to develop U.S.-style smaller, high-yield nuclear weapons. Because they have more to learn from below-ground testing than the U.S., the Russians have more to gain by an intensive underground testing program...
...summer of perspiration and change is going very nicely. The opposition has begun to yield, offering negotiations in place of jail sentences. If the Kennedy Administration and the Congress will provide some late but no less necessary assistance to the advancing civil rights movement, the United States should be a better place to live in by this Fall...
Diem's reply was to clamp virtual martial law over Saigon. All the city's main pagodas were sealed off, and barbed-wire barricades blocked off streets. On the radio, Diem blamed Quang Due's "tragic death" on "certain minds, poisoned by seditious propaganda." Refusing to yield to Buddhist demands, Diem added: "Buddhism in Viet Nam finds its fundamental safeguards in the constitution, of which I personally am the guardian...
...process of surviving Harvard College, With each flaw he finds in himself, and with the strength he derives from unexpected sources, the undergraduate gains a kind of tolerance. He finds books and ideas, once opaque, that have managed to fortify him, and these are treasured. Certain experiences and people yield him greater pleasure as he comprehends more of what lies behind them...
...bond of blood" with the Angolan nationalists. The war is a grievous burden for tiny Portugal, which already has Western Europe's lowest living standard. But Strongman Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. 74, is by now too deeply committed to preservation of Angola as a "province" of Portugal to yield the Africans even token self-government without imperiling his own 31-year reign in Lisbon. Despite the steady rise in the guerrillas' strength and effectiveness, Salazar's best hope of victory lies in the bitter enmity between the two nationalist movements that are struggling to win Angola...