Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain in directing Western policy. Its private deterrent is an expensive luxury for France-$300 million a year-and will become costlier still. For its money, France next year will have an operational force of 50 short-range Mirage IV bombers, each carrying two relatively low-yield atom bombs. Snickering military experts point out that this will be equal to only one U.S. bomber wing. For Gallic egos, this does not matter. More important, it will no doubt increase France's influence. Already, its imminent reality has persuaded the U.S. to supply De Gaulle with air-to-air refueling...
...money (mostly in real estate and Alcoa stock) were simply banked, it would yield about $13.5 million a year-compared with the Carnegie Corporation's $10.9 million in 1961. Clearly, a new-philanthropic giant has been born...
...October he fired a troublemaking Communist shop steward. When the other shop stewards called a wildcat strike, Barke refused to yield, and within ten days the strike collapsed. Then Barke refused to rehire 600 of the striking workers-including twelve shop stewards-all of whom he classified as troublemakers...
Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, also explained that the Russians regard secrecy as a weapon and are therefore unwilling to yield it as a mere procedure preliminary to disarmament...
Dartmouth's victory Saturday, like the team itself, was unspectacular. It was built on a powerful line which refused to yield defensively and was able to open moderate-sized holes on offense...