Word: sopped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...independent voter who cast her ballot for Eisenhower, I feel very strongly on the advisability of a Cabinet post for Stevenson (and not one of the sop positions, either). Such an act would be not only a smart political move on the part of the President elect, but also a great service to the country...
...exiled father. Kashmir's real ruler, the man who banished Karan's father, is Prime Minister Sheik Mohammed Abdullah, a Moslem. As he had long threatened to do, Abdullah persuaded the Kashmir constituent assembly to abolish the 106-year-old dynasty of the ruling Singhs. As a sop to the sentiments of the Hindu minority, however, he offered to let young Karan become the state's constitutional governor for a five-year term. But Karan's father, the old maharaja, who is living in luxury in Bombay, threatened to disinherit...
Last week it was the Tories' turn to propose a disreputable transaction. Receiving a demand from Bamangwato elders for the return of Seretse and his queen, the Churchill government abruptly announced that Seretse henceforth is forever barred from the chieftainship. As a sop to Seretse, they offered him a government job in Jamaica, but said it would not be kept open long (he refused...
...proponents of this measure, that we must get U.M.T. started now in order to be able to build up this reserve, and as we built up this reserve gradually, then we would reduce gradually the number in the active service under the draft. [The Vinson amendment] is just a sop to get a few votes for the bill ... If we never begin U.M.T., we will not have...
...traveling man, he rushed off to see Producer Stanley Kramer. Such a gloomy fadeout, Whitney argued, would horrify the peppy, up-to-the-minute salesman of today. Kramer would not tamper with the grim plot of his forthcoming film version of Death of a Salesman. But he offered a sop. Columbia would make a special ten-minute short for Whitney's organization, showing that salesmen these days are not like Willy Loman at all, but happy, well-trained technicians who are a valuable natural resource...