Word: capitulationism
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Sir / I was astonished to read that Napoleon had ransacked the antiquities of Egypt for the Louvre. It would have been difficult for him to do so. As everyone knows, he slipped out of the country in a small frigate with just a few followers, carefully concealing his departure from...
Debate. The quadriphonic howls of protest indicated that Ruckelshaus had passed one test of an impartial compromise: he outraged both sides about equally. Ralph Nader, Detroit's perennial fifth wheel,* charged that the EPA decision amounted to "capitulation to the domestic auto industry, pure and simple." Automen insisted that...
The end of the fight was predictable; when the year ended, so did the Journal. Its editors lost money, sleep, and study time in their struggle to set up and run a new paper. Commencement brought capitulation, and The Crimson once more had the field to itself. But The Crimson...
It has been the motivation behind the bombings that has added these latest members to an already, mixed group of political bedfellows. Nixon's bombing was not for military but for psychological purposes, these were terror bombings designed to frighten North Vietnam into capitulation at the negotiating tables. The parallels...
Widmark is in top form and Forrest is a real find, a new actor with the kind of presence and subtle authority that can animate a characterization, not dominate it. Millar makes good use of him, especially in a devastating last scene when Tom returns as a man to the...