Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these strata constitute "occupation layers": buried within each are flint and bone objects that accumulated as the layer slowly accumulated during geological history. Some of the layers represent a year's occupation of the Abri Pataud; others contain the relics of 10, 20 or more years. A few yield no bones or man-made objects for they were laid down while no one lived beneath the rock-shelter...
...Jaspers had hoped to yield but a small margin in the shot put and weight throw, but they hoped in vain. Ed Bailey, Art Doten, and Loren Clayman began the afternoon by sweeping the 35-lb, weight throw for the Crimson...
...Soviet tests showed a capability for developing atomic weapons with vastly more explosive energy yield per pound of weight. In the past, the U.S. nuclear lead has rested in great part on the superior yield-weight performance of its atomic devices. With the report on Red progress, scientists came to the inescapable conclusion that the Soviets are technically capable of producing just about any warhead in the U.S. arsenal. Moreover, in view of their yield-weight success, they might well be able to package one of their monstrous, 50-plus megaton bombs in a warhead tipping a missile well within...
Being family men themselves, U.S. retailers yield to no one in their appreciation of Christmas tradition. But like the caterer at a banquet, they must keep a steady head and a calculating eye. To them, Christmas, whatever its sentimental and religious significance, is also the most important financial event of the whole year. For many stores, it spells the difference between showing a profit for the year or merely breaking even...
...best in the nation; what sense does it make to pull up short? And this decision almost certainly will never be repeated. By Bowl time next year, the Big Ten will probably have signed a pact agreeing to send its champion to Pasadena, and Ohio State will definitely yield to the omniscience of the Big Ten as a whole...