Word: yieldings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last moment, the Generalissimo personally took part in the talks. He could not, he pointed out, tolerate an armed state within the state. He was the steward of China's destiny. His charge had come from the great Sun Yatsen, and he would yield nothing of the ultimate responsibility for China's government. General Chou would not budge either. In Chungking's concessions he saw no termination of "one-party dictatorship." But the political crux of the matter was that Yenan's one-party dictatorship dared not, any more than Chungking, surrender control over the military...
...command and the Greek Government, buzzed with rumor. An EAM emissary, hefty, handsome Miltiades Porphyrogenis, made his way across the urban battle lines to the headquarters of British Lieut. General Ronald Mackenzie Scobie received from him the British terms for an armistice: ELAS troops in Athens and Piraeus must yield their arms, evacuate the area. Two days later, EAM countered with a three-point demand for an amnesty, an all-party Government, a regency...
...Fear We Need Not Yield." On Feb. 1, 1942, after two years in the background, Vidkun Quisling was reinstated as puppet dictator of Norway in a gaudy Wagnerian ceremony in Oslo's Akershus Castle. The people of Oslo stayed away from the ceremony. But in Trondheim Norwegians by the thousand gathered outside Nidaros Cathedral. Inside, preaching to a handful of quislingites, a puppet pastor was shouting the praises of his leader. The people in the street were waiting to hear Dean Arne Fjellbu. At 2 p.m., the hour scheduled for Fjellbu's afternoon service, police appeared with clubs...
...souls to fear we need not yield...
...mung planting in Oklahoma was up to 35,000 acres, the yield was 270 lbs. of beans an acre. This year 80,000 acres of mungs were planted, an estimated 16.8 million Ibs. of beans harvested. Most of the harvest was trucked to Johnson's busy grain elevator. In fact, some farmers darkly suspect that Johnson cornered the mung market this year, and is making a killing. He denies it. But he bought all the beans he could get, at from 10 to 18? a lb.. last week was shipping them out to Chinese buyers in New York...