Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acting under orders to probe China's real intentions in Ladakh. But Menon's contention that Ladakh was only "unoccupied territory" and Nehru's stance that he would be willing to make "minor" territorial concessions to the Chinese have raised fears in Parliament that India will yield on China's terms...
...standing here in the Senate as I have stood here today would begin to show a 5 o'clock shadow. I feel that I have lost my lipstick too ..."At that point, Rhode Island's John Pastore, floor manager of the satellite bill, asked whether she would yield so he could speak. Suspecting some parliamentary maneuver, she refused, instead called for a quorum. During the quorum call, Pastore walked over to the lady and whispered: "I was just going to say you are charming and lovely even without lipstick." Next day the battle grew bitter. Oklahoma...
...headquarters−but he is deeply involved in Malayan affairs. Even before there was serious pressure for Malayan independence, he began training local men to take a hand in plantation management. At great cost, he pioneered the development of new grafting techniques and agricultural hormones that have produced higher-yielding rubber trees. By sharing his developments with the official Malayan rubber research agen cy and, along with other rubber planters, helping to finance it, he is now sparking the government's drive to help hundreds of small growers replant with high-yield trees. Last year Sir John...
...best. Paul De Man (since lost to Cornell) contributes an essay on Wordsworth and Yeats; he is probably the most rigorous "close reader" of the bunch, and his essay successfully solves the problem which trips up many of his co-authors, making the careful analysis of particular poems yield insights into the writers' general concerns and methods. William Taylor (on his way to Wisconsin), who has the unenviable task of making Parkman's De Salle interesting, also succeeds where others fail, by skillfully combining description of the author's life and personality with intelligent evaluation of his book...
...Matter of Mix. Just as some individual investors did better than others in the crash, so did some funds. Best performers were the ultraconservative funds that attempt to ensure a steady dividend income by concentrating their holdings in bonds and high-yield stocks. Thus Boston's Incorporated Income Fund fell only 9.4%, and the K-1 fund operated by the Keystone Custodian Fund dropped only...