Word: yieldingness
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When, in July, oil production in Venezuela surpassed that in Mexico (5,480,204 barrels against 5,235,792 barrels) the matter seemed probably fortuitous. Last week's information that in August Venezuela again surpassed Mexico (5,-290,807 barrels against slightly more than 5,000,000 barrels) definitely...
The old atmosphere of tradition that used to pervade the confines of Hollis and Matthews Halls has now been dispelled in favor of a modern one. For during the summer, these two old dormitories have been the victims of the carpenter's hammer and the plasterer's tools, in the...
Although this disagreement was of a technical kind, the points on which deadlock had been reached were understood by all (TIME, July 18) and so there remained last week only three possible courses to pursue: 1) dissolution of conference; 2) postponement; 3) a yielding by one side or the other...
"It is forbidden for a man to be alone in a hotel room with a woman who is not his wife, sister or mother. A simple kiss in the park is a legal offense. Adultery is actually considered a crime. But that does not keep the Americans from yielding to...
"It was impossible that she should be aware as she lay there, so small, soft and yielding that she was indulging her most powerful instinct, the instinct of possession, the longing, the passionate need to possess that she had inherited from generations of fiercely grasping Gartons, men who had torn...