Word: yieldingness
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Despite the fact that they lost by the margin of two points after touchdown, the showing of the underdog team of Neil Stahley against what was termed the best Blue aggregation in ten years was one yielding rosy hopes for the future.
A Senator may talk as long as he can. By yielding to co-operative colleagues for long involved questions or side speeches, he can, under the rules, hold the floor almost indefinitely. Thus, two months ago, when he was filibustering against the anti-lynching bill, Alabama's Senator Bankhead...
Said Huey Long: "I am not so rebellious as my younger and older colleagues in this body. I am not one of the cantankerous, non-yielding kind of fellows. I have always found out that it is best to compromise and harmonize. . . ."
The game was a long tough battle from the start, developing into a pitching duel between Bill Lincoln of Harvard and Horton, the former striking out six, walking three, and getting touched for ten hits, the latter striking out 11, walking two, and yielding 11 hits.
First sign that China was yielding came after Japanese demonstrations in and over Tientsin with troops, tanks and bombing planes, the latter thundering low over Tientsin's foreign concessions. Promptly Governor Yu, whose dismissal Japan had demanded, was dismissed and departed southward with his troops. Five trainloads of Government...