Word: sopped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind the immediate issue of peace or war pressed a greater issue: who would rule Italy in the future? The Volcano. To the people who cried for peace and liberty the Badoglio Government replied with a sop and a stick...
Transport of war matériel will cease Aug. 15; traffic of furloughed men to & from Norway and the "horseshoe traffic" from Trondheim to Narvik via Swedish territory will be discontinued Aug. 20. Only sop to the Nazis was the phraseology of the announcement, which called Sweden's decision an "agreement." No one was fooled; Sweden gave no compensating concessions. The Swedish Army (500,000 wellarmed, well-trained men) was holding full-scale maneuvers in south Sweden at the moment of the announcement. The action, affecting the transport of an esti mated 250,000 men per year, will force...
...earlier, in a statement on domestic policy before the Supreme Council of the Falange, Franco led some observers to believe he was toying with the idea of restoring the monarchy under Falange auspices and control, as a sop to advisers who feel that such a move would strengthen Spain's bargaining position with the Allies. Said he: "The regime firmly installed by us may adopt [a monarchy], without prejudice to our revolution or realization of our historic destiny...
...Transportation would let it go on at all. Its pressmen, trained in superlative promotion, flooded the country with quotes on the morale value of circuses ranging from Greek literature to an account of the circus in Moscow (by Leland Stowe). They even talked about fighting inflation (the circus would sop up purchasing power), promised the Treasury that they would exchange war bonds for seats at every performance (total circus war-bond sales in Manhattan...
...half the workers in these plants an average increase of 7½? an hour under a reclassified pay scale; to the 30,000 workers in Boeing's Seattle plant-who had walked out fortnight ago because WLB's decision was so long delayed-it threw a small sop in the form of a 4½?-an-hour increase under the Little Steel formula...