Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Black love is a way of ensuring that you don't yield to the temptation of hate," said West, who is director of Afro-American studies at Princeton University...
...said that the drop in African-American enrollment was due to a decreased yield for Black students rather than fewer admittals. The Asian-American yield this year, 80 percent, was higher than that for Harvard as a whole, and Asian-Americans are strongly represented in the Class of '96, he said...
...Only a new seed can yield a new crop," said Hagelin, a quantum physicist with a 1981 Ph.D. from Harvard. He is the candidate of the recently formed Natural Law Party...
...fury when the governor proposes sex in exchange for her brother's freedom, her anguish when she perceives her brother to have compromised his honor: "yet hath he in him such a mind of honor/ That had he 20 heads to tender down/ On 20 bloody blocks, he'ld yield them up,/ Before his sister should her body stoop/To such abhorred pollution...
...learn, was a Black portrait artist who impregnated a white subject centuries ago. An angry mob chased him to the present location of the housing project, sawed off his hand with a rusty blade, covered him with honey and let bees sting him to death. Helen's investigations yield some great material, but Candyman takes a fancy to her--she looks just like his lover--and puts a crimp in her style...