Word: pliant
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Instead of meeting a pliant Uncle Sam, Cuban sugar men have therefore smacked into a tough bargainer. The U.S. offer to Cuba last month: a 40% cut in production, last year's price, plus two measly sops in the form of 1-1½? a Ib. for an additional 400,000-ton stock pile and vague offers to help Cuba diversify its one-crop economy (which is more than high-cost domestic producers have been persuaded...
Pleased as punch with her trip, after ten days in Britain she had already concluded that more Americans should go there: "But they must be the right type . . . not the heads of industries, but the young up & coming men whose minds are still pliant and who can still learn...
...once-pliant Murray it was the end of a sentimental journey. He had lost no power in C.I.O., most likely had gained prestige. Locals in Lewis' own mine union are already backing away from Angry John. The other C.I.O. unions stood behind Murray. More than any other man in A.F. of L. or C.I.O., he had the backing of a united labor force. This week he will meet with his own C.I.O. executive board. They will discuss, among other things, what to do about former friend John L. Lewis...
Next day a special session of Iran's pliant Parliament cheered at the news that Boss Reza had abdicated "for reasons of health." Parliament promptly sat his eldest son, 21-year-old Mohammed Shah Pahlavi, on the throne...
...Marshal's spine became too pliant, Hitler would eventually treat France as he had treated the other countries he has conquered. If it became too stiff, anything might happen, including the breakup of France. With De Gaulle on one side and Déat on the other and the Marshal in the middle, France was already not one country, but three...