Word: yieldingness
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Have to Take It. Perhaps the most convincing evidence of all that Mc- Govern is not just operating a holding action for Kennedy is the determined and energetic way in which he is campaigning. He is traveling widely, speaking up readily on issues. He has taken to wearing longer hair...
Westerners who know him well describe Yahya as a reasonable man but stubborn, proud and discipline-minded, He began a drive on corruption last year by summoning senior civil servants and telling them that they were all "a bunch of thieves." The bureaucracy ground to a halt in protest, and...
"Mintoff is using the shock treatment," said a Western diplomat after a visit to Malta last week. "He believes his people have to be kicked out of their dreamy complacency and lethargy. He also believes the British must be shocked into yielding to his demands."
The next moment was magic. The few hundred people in the audience were smiling encouragement, clapping loud and hard. They were, it was true, responding to a flashing APPLAUSE sign, but who cared? Awash in the sound, I was transported into indescribable ecstasy. Instantly I understood what it felt like...
The new men elected to an enlarged Politburo were Viktor Grishin, 57, Moscow party chief; Dinmukhamed Kunayev, 59, Kazakhstan party chief; Vladimir Shcherbitsky, 53, chairman of the council of ministers of the Ukraine, and Fedor Kulakov, 53, a party secretary and specialist in agriculture. All are Brezhnev protég...