Word: yieldingness
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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...
Some squares, such as those marked "Courtesy" or "Communion," offer a new spin of the wheel or an advance of several notches. Others impose severe penalties. At square 17 the player loses a turn and must go back to number 10 for "yielding to the Devil's temptation." The...
The sun, in sober fact, is a kind of hydrogen bomb that generates its life-giving energy by "fusing" hydrogen into helium. Man's new bombs will not use exactly the same reactions, but they will use similar ones yielding the same end product. When the first of them...
Connally's yielding and Acheson's scorn neither relieved nor silenced the Republicans. Ohio's Robert Taft read a 1,500-word statement to the Senate, instead of talking impromptu as he usually does. Said he: "There can be no crossing [by Communists to Formosa] if our...
On the Tail. Elsewhere in the world last week, man's fey behavior was undoubtedly affecting other members of the animal kingdom. In Honolulu, pearl fishermen made plans to dope stubborn oysters into yielding up their precious pearls, by a drug said by its sponsor to resemble that used...