Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with this particular perspective on our democratic processes that I underline my deep personal conviction that the future of freedom lies in the federal idea. I refer to the federal idea broadly as a concept of government by which a sovereign people-for their greater progress and protection-yield a portion of their sovereignty to a political system that has more than one center of sovereign power, energy and creativity...
After dissolving two marriages (to Egypt's Princess Fawzia, Iran's Soraya) when they failed to yield a son, the Shah of Iran married 21-year-old Farah Diba (whose last name means silk) in December 1959. An olive-skinned beauty with lustrous brown eyes and soft, full lips, brainy, sports-loving Farah produced a boy in ten months and was duly named Empress by her grateful husband...
...money on the market, most small investors failed to consider the consequences of an end to inflation. When the stock market hit its December peak, stocks in the Dow-Jones index (a relatively stable, conservative group) were selling at a precariously high 23 times earnings. As prices rose, dividend yields on common stocks fell from their long-term average of 4.9% to less than 3%-well below the average 4.3% yield on high-grade bonds, which, being less speculative, traditionally pay less income. Only four times in the past 80 years had common stock yields been so low-and each...
...believe...that even given the impossibility of such [underground] detection, the government has not shown cause why we could not sign a treaty banning all tests universally recognized to be detectable by existing ("national") systems--that is, atmospheric tests and underground tests above a certain yield...
Apart from the bare announcement that two bombs, one of them in the "low-megaton-yield range" had been dropped from airplanes and exploded over the Pacific, the newest U.S. nuclear test series supplied little news last week. Neither diplomatic policy nor the need for military secrecy completely explained the comparative silence. There was, in fact, little to be told. Test bombs are not exploded merely to see if they will work or to admire the bang. The instrumental setup is enormously complicated, with seismographs, barographs, radiation detectors, photocells, and many more subtle instruments spread over hundreds of miles...