Word: sopped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt has been cogitating that question. As a result the U. S. Delegation is fitted out with an elaborate sop to be offered at the right moment to Japan, a positively devilish sop in the opinion of Japanese sea dogs who hoped and prayed last week that it will not water down their human torpedo into a damp squib...
...explained in Washington, the sop would be to set up in place of "naval ratios" something called "security equality...
Ignoring such attacks, President Andrew Conley of the T. U. C. threw maximum weight against the pacifists. Amid hubbub the T. U. C. adopted a resolution under which British laborers may work on whatever munitions orders come the way of their employers. As a sop to pacifism the T. U. C. went on record as still favoring the League of Nations but definitely rejected the program of a general strike to prevent...
...orders. They must not wear their uniforms during July, must not assemble, must not question or dispute the Government's massacre methods in wiping out "the mutiny of a few Storm Troop leaders, a mutiny in which the rank and file were not involved." As a final sop to the boys in brown, who have every reason to fear that Adolf Hitler is going to reduce their numbers by a "cleansing" such as that through which Josef Stalin periodically puts the Communist Party, they were told last week: "Adolf Hitler is faithful to the Storm Troops. He loves...
...excellent" or "very good." He barely skinned through his oral arithmetic, written arithmetic, oral Russian, written Russian, history, biology and German. In these he was "fair." the lowest Bolshevik mark short of just passing. But Vassily is "good" at Russian literature, geography, physics, geometry and manual training. As a sop to Bolshevik censorship Correspondent Barnes stoutly declared Vassily is "one of those all-around boys who are interested in many things besides school work...