Word: yieldingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Roving Eye. To his own mild dismay, young Boswell was always aspiring to virtue and yielding to vice. In church, his mind and eye kept roving toward pretty women ("What a curious, inconsistent thing is the mind of man!"), and London prostitutes found him an easy conquest. What seemed at...
But strong-arm methods-as many another tyrant has learned-are not always the worst thing a religion has to fear. Warned 16-year-long China Missionary Samuel E. Boyle: "The danger now facing the Chinese churches is not that of physical persecution. The real peril is spiritual -in yielding...
The great promise of the atomic age-cheap and unlimited power from uranium -has not materialized. Some critics blame the Atomic Energy Commission for yielding to the military and devoting too much of its attention to developing atomic weapons. Speaking last week before the Detroit Section of the Society of...
Broken Yardstick. The blue chips themselves, even after their long rise, still looked cheap in relation to profits and dividends. For example, the 30 stocks in the Dow-Jones industrial average will earn this year an estimated $25 per share v. 1929's $19.31. Even at their peak of...
Graceful Yielding. The ladies went out in the streets and circulated defiant petitions; they held meeting after meeting. In their spare time, Ligue members went around ringing doorbells to press their drive. Last fortnight, powerful support came from Lake Success, New York: in an ornately worded note to the Haitian...