Word: sop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Socialist Premier Guy Mollet won four votes of confidence from the Chamber of Deputies last week, on proposals to increase old-age pensions and levy new taxes to pay for them. The measure was a sop to his Socialist supporters, who are restive at the strong measures Mollet is taking in Algeria. Mollet's right-wing opponents do not want to bring him down, because it suits them fine to have a Social ist taking the unpopular but necessary action in Algeria...
Vice President Dawes fought Coolidge on the matter of farm legislation. Dawes was a sop which the Republican Convention of 1924 threw to appease the farmers who, in 1924, were suffering much as they are today...
This was Peking's latest educational sop for its people. From such bits of evidence, as well as from official reports and those of foreign visitors, U.S. and Japanese intelligence agencies have been piecing together a picture of what has happened to Mao Tse-tung's great promise to give his country universal education. The picture now seems clear...
Only once in his testimony did Broady lose his composure-when he told how one of his agents, Geologist Clarence Sop-man, 29, had been murdered in Mexico when he was trying to recover part of $7,000,000 stolen from the Nationalist Chinese government by renegade Lieut...
...hike in the tax on dividends paid out by private companies. This was Butler's sop to the trade unions, which had promised to hold back on wage demands if dividends were restrained...