Word: yieldingness
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Congress completed the debacle by yielding to parochial interests and finally shrinking fearfully from anything that might restrict driving. The Senate did approve stand-by rationing, 59 to 38, but only after forcing several concessions. The most important would have allotted ration coupons on the basis not of car ownership...
(10 of 17) limit, rather than an averaging approach, on cruise missiles aboard bombers. Since the Russians were yielding to the U.S. on the averaging approach, Gromyko continued, their earlier concession on the MIRV freeze was no longer operative. Sighed a haggard American official, paraphrasing Lenin, "One step forward, one...
In the first game senior Paul McOsker relieved sore-shouldered starter Ron Stewart in the second inning, and the lanky lefty ("Hey, who put the uniform on the fungo?" was the razz line at Cornell) proceeded to hual his finest stint since he one-hit Princeton two years ago. McOsker...
The roles had been reversed in the first game--there was better hitting, but worse fielding. Luckily, though, the pitching was again invincible, as the unflappable Larry Brown moored Navy with eight strikeouts, while yielding but four hits and one earned run.
Buoyed by the lead, Keyte set down the first two Minuteman hitters in order before yielding consecutive singles to Doug Welenc and Leo Kalinowski to put men at first and third. UMass DH Mark Litano then popped Keyte's next offering to first base. But the wind, which had circled...