Word: yieldingness
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Victoria never wore her crown in private. To Albert she was a yielding, sensuous wife who even in her plaints on childbearing (she bore nine) felt that it was well worth the price. Victoria's grief at his death is an inundation of scalding, desolating loss.
The winter so far has been marked by the familiar progression of incongruities: worldwide speculation about imminent peace talks, yielding to carnage, followed in turn by further hints of negotiations. The most recent talk about talks became intense in late December and early January, when the North Vietnamese said officially...
Since the market is made up of millions of individual investors, people who try to describe it often talk as if it has a character or personality of its own-which, in effect, it has. The market knows what it likes and what it doesn't like. It prefers...
Out of Moves. Without mentioning the Bo statement, Johnson in effect replied to it in the State of the Union message with a slightly reworded version of his San Antonio speech. In San Antonio he had said that the U.S. would call off the bombing "when this will lead promptly...
Whether any give will develop in either the U.S. or the North Vietnamese positions remains to be seen. Private diplomatic exploration of exactly what is on Hanoi's mind is continuing, and may go on for some time before it is clear whether any progress is being made. So...