Word: yieldingness
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Honestus: Well, since the middle 1930s the number of operating farms in the U.S. has declined from nearly 7,000,000 to fewer than 4,000,000, and the farm population has shrunk from 25% of the total population to less than 10%. But a technological revolution has taken place...
Without Help. Since labor is jealous of surrendering any jobs, the Government's intervention does not always work-and sometimes results only in a compromise that prolongs an impossible situation. Thus, neither Continental nor United Air Lines has any problem with a third man. Without Government help, they both...
Chosen Identity. In one fictional fling, Baldwin has tried to unburden himself of all his feelings about racism and homosexuality, about the cacophony of despair and misunderstanding that he believes America to be. But in Another Country this is projected on a wholly inadequate fictional frame: six characters in search...
Velvet Swindle. The solidest and most serious entries in Crime and Criminals-juvenile delinquency, penology, prostitution, war crimes-exhibit a drab sociologist look and a stylistic prison pallor. But as a refresher course in big-name crime, the book often proves happily terse where there no longer can be much...
Human societies do make war and kill one another's members. But human wars are seldom simple struggles for food-yielding territory, like the summer wars of birds. They are fought for complicated reasons-religious, idealistic, nationalistic, commercial, dynastic-that have little in common with animal or Australopithecine motives...