Word: capitulationism
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The adverse effects of this decision were immediate-if not immediately understood by King and his associates. "The white press so thoroughly indoctrinated King and his people with the idea that the capitulation (of the Northern-owned Montgomery bus company) was a victory for blacks... (that) they believed it: believed...
Kill or Cure. The capitulation of the postal union's leadership is being hailed as a victory for Ted Heath's hard-line stand against inflationary wage demands. After Heath's apparent victory over the Electrical Trade Union workers in December, though, a board of inquiry subsequently...
Nixon nevertheless restates his confidence in the eventual success of Vietnamization. He notes that the policy was largely forced by U.S. public opinion and was "the only policy available once we had rejected the status quo, escalation and capitulation." Unlike his foreign policy report of last year, Nixon's...
Brown blamed the inflation on union demands for higher wages and said that labor unions have become so powerful that "bargaining for higher wages is a matter of capitulation on the employers' part."
Enraged Amazons. "The Prisoner of Sex," out this week, features more four-letter words than Harper's has printed in all its 121-year history. Mailer's 47,000-word exercise in sexual dialectic will probably blow brains not only among Lib ladies but a sizable segment of...