Word: sop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rejected before. If by any chance the House should accept the Haugen bill, it was reasonably certain that the President would veto it. The most the proponents of the bill could really hope for was a greatly modified compromise-a sort of patchwork bill as a sop for the farmers...
General surprise was expressed that Turkey accepted so small an oil sop. In British-mandated Irak, the exploitation of oil is expected to gladden British babbitts, while British churchmen tenderly foster the local Christians-numbering 79,000 odd, engulfed by 87,000 Jews and 2,500,000 Moslems...
...simple expedient of commanding the Greeks to snip, promising to pay them 6% interest on their snipped "shares," and seizing one-fourth of the collateral securing, the present banknote issue. By this means he secured 1,250,000,000 drachmas ($250,000,000). By way of throwing an additional sop to the outraged snippers he promised them a lottery through which 10,000,000 drachmas ($2,000,000) will be distributed yearly to fortunate individuals whose snipped "shares" bear lucky serial numbers...
...opposition, the World Court rode through the Senate, 76-17. Wilson is dead; Harding is dead; Lodge and LaFollette are dead. What does this tardy victory of the proponents of international cooperation mean? Is it, as Johnson solemnly warned, "the way towards the League?" Is it a sop, alike to the leadership of Coolidge and the idealism of the nation...
...attempt of the Germans to rehash wartime bitterness is not altogether prompted by the desire for moral vindication. If they could prove themselves innocent, the whole basis of the Versailles treaty would fall through. As a sop to Wilsonian idealism, Germany was forced to pay reparations and give up colonies not as the price of defeat but as punishment for starting...