Word: capitulationist
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...associate professor at the University of Texas went so far as to ban from his classes all books written by Harvard professors, charging that the Faculty here had "turned chicken." More temperate charges adopted essentially the same argument, but the Faculty held its ground. Later, Pusey, surely no capitulationist, justified the vote by maintaining that "the black student thing is a very special matter." Despite Pusey's defense, the criticisms, as well as a lingering resentment on the part of many Faculty members, dogged the new department through its early years...
...this the Soviet leader took-or was made to take-in the glimmering hope that a final split with China could yet be avoided. Then, last week, Mao called Khrushchev "the greatest capitulationist in history" and summoned Communists everywhere to "repudiate and liquidate" Russia's leader. With that, world Communism ripped brutally and publicly apart...
...People's Navy offered a historical drama, "Naval Battle of 1894 Sino-Japanese War." Peking Review describes it in one convoluted sentence: "Despite the bravery of its men, the Peiyang Squadron of the Chinese Navy is defeated by the Japanese fleet as a result of the betrayal of the capitulationist clique of the Ching court working in collusion with foreign imperialists...
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