Word: yieldings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ellender had the floor. Barkley went and whispered in his ear. Bilbo opened his door a crack so that he could watch. He watched Ellender yield the floor to Barkley, who promised to give it back if Ellender still wanted it "after he has heard what I have...
Greatest Step? In the clearest terms he had yet used, Bernard Baruch told A.E.C. why the U.S. would not yield its atomic know-how unless the control plan included specific guarantees against veto protection for violators. Baruch said that the A.E.C. recommendations would "die aborning" unless "all of the great powers" on the Council accepted them. He added: "It has been said that if a great nation decided to violate a treaty, no agreements, however solemn, will prevent such violation; that if a great nation does not have the right to release itself from its obligation by veto the result...
Corn was king, with 3.3 billion bushels (against a 2.6 billion average). Wheat hit 1.16 billion bushels, 37% above average. The nation's farmers also set new highs in rice, soybeans, cherries, potatoes, tobacco, peaches, pears, plums and truck crops. Only in cotton and rye was the yield down by wide margins...
...fought Kelly again, though unsuccessfully, when he boomed Tom Courtney for the mayor's seat in 1939. He had not changed a bit, he said. He was going to go ahead on his own; if his ideas clashed with the machine, the machine would have to yield...
...credo of government on the basis of "Three People's Principles." Screamed the middle groups: "Since only one party is enacting the constitution, who will hold the Assembly?" Carson Chang, boss of the Democratic Socialists, wired from Shanghai instructions that his delegation must not yield to the Kuomintang diehards on Articles...