Word: capitulationism
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The "action" thus cryptically threatened was understood to be the blockading by battleships Warspite and Valiant of the customs offices at Alexandria and Port Said, from which the Egyptian Government derives a major portion of its revenue. Faced with such a threat-to-pocket, Prime Minister Nahass Pasha yielded inevitably...
Elsa excused herself, told herself the union was for practical reasons. If she had been willing to go on as a grubbing farm girl, she insisted in her thoughts, she would have married an employe of the Carews, an eerie cowboy with a magic guitar whose dynamic physique had created...
White-necked, white-handed coal miners have ceased to be anomalous in Britain, for the coal strike, bringing leisure for ablution, has lasted through the summer (TIME, May 10 et seq.). With one million miners still on strike, with their four million dependents living on hand-to-mouth doles, with...
¶Were apprised of the Yorkshire mine owners' capitulation to the Government in the matter of wages, and began to debate the bill.
Capitulation. During the two days of scattered fighting which ensued, some 500 Poles were killed. Government planes bombed Pilsudski's headquarters at the Saxon Palace. His troops tightened the siege of the Nationalists and the President at the Belvedere Palace. Then three Cabinet Ministers flew up and away in...