Word: sopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lacks a broad representative base. All the power rests in the hands of the House Committees, especially their chairmen, men elected previously to serve a role other than in intra-college affairs. The Freshmen seem to have realized this, and continued to vote against the change, despite the sop of additional (unrepresentative) membership. If the organizers of student government at Harvard want an effective body, they must have direct representation so that their actions are backed up by the electors. The situation is similar to that of the original (by State Legislatures) vs. the current (direct election) method of selection...
...believe that as many as 1,000,000 German farmers (out of some 3,200,000 in a total population of 55 million) will have to abandon the land. This is bad news to C.D.U. political professionals who have begun to think about the 1965 elections. As a necessary sop to the farmers and as a disappointment to his ideological supporters, Politician Erhard is currently soft-pedaling his free-market ideals as far as agriculture is concerned and promises that grain prices will stay artificially high...
...book fails as an objective and balanced critique of Allied air policy. It is as a sop to the German conscience that it will probably prove most successful...
Partly because of Admiral George Anderson's outspoken criticism of the award of the TFX fighter-plane contract to General Dynamics, the Kennedy Administration decided to drop him as U.S. Chief of Naval Operations. As a sop, Anderson was named U.S. Ambassador to Portugal...
...doing his job well. When a Russian troop train must be rushed through to put down the 1956 Hungarian uprising, he shunts off local traffic to let it pass. He rejects a colleague's suggestion that the switchmen should hold it up. Such a gesture is a frivolous sop to their own private feelings about the Russians, he argues. How long could the switchmen delay them? he asks. "They'd still have made it by tomorrow morning...