Word: sop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indonesia's handsome President Soekarno professes to have no fear of Communists. This feeling stems from the premature 1948 Communist rebellion, which Soekarno's troops handily broke. Two years ago, thinking it a harmless sop to the political left, Soekarno picked an acknowledged Marxist named Iwa Kusuma-sumantri as his Defense Minister...
...interested in your April 4 observation that "Before the [Senate] Finance Committee hearings were well under way, more than 100 amendments had been introduced, nearly all of them tossing a tariff sop to localized industries, with little regard for the common good." I sincerely hope that you were not including in that list of 100 amendments that which I have introduced . . . Briefly, the Watkins amendment would...
...Paris to sop up background about great poets of the past, Poet-Anthologist Louis Untermeyer was in a gloomy mood about the prospects for U.S. poets of the present. "There are only one or two poets, Robert Frost and possibly Ogden Nash, who are making a living out of it," Untermeyer complained to Columnist Art Buchwald. "The rest of us have to teach, write books, compose anthologies ... A poet can't even starve in a garret these days because garrets now are too expensive . . . There is less hospitality for a poet than there ever has been before. The mediums...
...expect (or want) its Senators to be Solomons, and the problem posed by the foreign-trade bill demands not legendary wisdom but simple legislative responsibility. Before the Finance Committee hearings were well under way, more than 100 amendments had been introduced, nearly all of them tossing a tariff sop to localized industries with little regard for the common good...
Wilson had taken a theme from Ae-sop ("The Two Dogs").* According to the transcript, this is what he said...