Word: capitulationism
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To some the Bloemfontein decision may have seemed an admission of defeat. But the conclusion was not so much a capitulation as a turning-point. In the causes and implicit opinions underlying it are seen the roots of the successes and problems of Harvard astronomy today--the expanding research facilities...
What Cargill's behavior ultimately inspires is a debate on how such behavior should be judged. The U.S. general in charge of the case admits Cargill's difficulties; but, somewhat like Captain Vere in Melville's Billy Budd, he sets law. however tyrannic, above lawbreaking, however understandable...
As a result of the partial capitulation of Schmitz, scholars in other universities must now decide whether to continue their boycott of the University of Washington. Regardless of individual decisions, those who were the first to make the boycott drove their point all the way to the president's office...
Scenting capitulation by the Anglo-Americans, Stalin moved in quickly. He was trying, he said, all possible ways to locate the top Lublin Poles by phone. So far, they had not been found. "I am afraid we have not sufficient time." He could not go ahead with Roosevelt's...
Kubitschek is making shrewd use of this high-level opposition by posing as a courageous David pitted against a political Goliath. "They are not asking me for a political peace," he cried in a recent speech. "They want my capitulation . . . And that I will not give them."