Word: yieldingness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Parrying the Line. His most vivid chapter is on the perils of dating. It sounds like one of those strange Indian rites in which warriors are permitted to wear feathers only after they have gotten a certain number of wounds. "What distinguishes the 'date' from other conversation is...
Yet, there, in the coal-and iron-laden valleys of South Manchuria, the Chinese Nationalists almost literally had their backs to the Wall. They were not yielding lightly, but Chiang's troops were bending backwards under the weight of the sixth major thrust by the Chinese Communists since V...
Harlow termed the play of the team as a whole ragged "In spurts and stops." After several quick touchdown, the Crimson attack was effectively stalled until the last 16 minutes of the game, when Western Maryland tired badly, yielding 8 of 14 first downs and four more touchdowns. He also...
Retreating Glaciers. Mountain glaciers, "very sensitive to climatic changes," also support Dr. Ahlmann's theory. In central Norway, Lapland and Greenland, the glaciers have been drawing back their long tongues of ice. Some have disappeared entirely. Icelandic glaciers are yielding up farmland which they have overridden for the last...
Harcourt Wood went all the way for Winthrop, yielding two runs in the fifth inning and one in the eight. Dunster's relief hurler, George Okamura, nearly succeeded in salvaging his cause with a two-run homer in the fifth, but the puritans' early lead proved sufficient for their victory...