Word: sopped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
...sop to the low-paid teachers (salary range: $2,650 to $5,650), the board approved $400-a-year raises. But the gesture was quickly hooted down. While 500 angry teachers demonstrated outside school headquarters at no Livingston Street, Brooklyn, nearly 200 who had jammed into the meeting room answered the board's action with angry speeches and boos of derision. Frankly skeptical of a promise to continue fighting for the salary scale ($3,000 to $6,500) recommended by a city fact-finding commission, the teachers defiantly announced that they would continue their boycott: "Thirty-five thousand teachers...
...restrict consumer credit further. It needs new authority from Congress to require banks to hold additional reserves, possibly in government bonds. It could do much more if it chose a course of bold action, which might not stop short of parting ways from the Treasury; it could then sop up purchasing power by selling bonds in the open market...