Word: sopped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Permitting free movement of labor, so that labor-hungry areas such as Germany's Ruhr can sop up some of Italy's 2,000,000 unemployed...
...speech flashed on the screen before the picture opens, the producer-director declares that his moral is the birth of freedom; "Moses freed mankind for the first time to live under law, not by submission to some individual." The statement is not only inaccurate; in effect, it throws a sop to everybody-atheists and agnostics, as well as Protestants, Catholics and Jews. They can all pay their $2.75 and watch his monstrosity with a clear conscience...
...fast enough to satisfy the demand for money. Other sources of investment funds are also falling behind, e.g., life insurance companies expect to increase their new assets by only $6 billion in 1956. As things stand, says New York University Economist Raymond Rodgers, rapidly expanding mortgage credit alone will sop up virtually all new savings accounts this year, plus two-thirds of all the new funds accumulated by life insurance companies...
...Hall. Combining in some measure the functions of a prince and a governor, with salaries ranging up to $120,000 a year, the title rajpramukh was bestowed by the republic on seven of the most powerful princes (along with allowances ranging upward to $1,000,000) as a sop to their pride. But even that comes to an end with the realignment of states. As a mere governor, poking along on his privy purse ($520,000) and an annual salary of $13,000, the maharaja would be able to throw no more parties like this. All through the elaborate...
Without disclosing the strength of China's armed forces, Defense Minister Marshal Peng Teh-huai announced that there were 2,700,000 fewer men under arms than in 1949. As a sop to the self-respect of the hitherto terrorized Chinese intellectuals, the leaders decreed that a party member, while obliged to carry out party decisions unconditionally, may now "reserve his opinion and submit it to a leading body if he disagrees." Surest indication of the regime's sense of achieved stability was the news that Red China is about to attempt a system of codified...