Word: truce
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...laws, the postal workers were determined to justify the hazard by making the most of their action. "We're used to hard times," said one striker, and few of his fellow workers would disagree. Union meetings resounded with obscenities aimed at Rademacher, Richard Nixon and everyone else urging a truce. Gustave Johnson, president of the letter carriers' Manhattan Branch 36, where it all started, asked for compliance without really expecting it. "For the first time these men are standing ten feet tall instead of groveling in the dust," he said. "By this action, we have graduated from an organization...
...next Parliament. The Kurdish language will enjoy official status along with Arabic. "This is no temporary armistice," said Bakr. "This is a complete political and constitutional settlement of all existing problems, and it will prevail forever." In Iraq, forever may not mean all it appears to. A 1966 truce between the government and Kurds proved short-lived when Baghdad reneged on its promises...
...bloodshed; of heart disease; in Chicago. Gelston saw his choices as three: "You can club 'em to death, you can arrest 'em, or you can let them demonstrate-controlled and protected-and hope eventually for a peaceful situation." He chose the last course, and eventually arranged the truce that allowed him to withdraw his troops...
...cynical poke: June of 1974 is, after all, still a long time off, and it is hard to know what Pusey will do between now and then. From a stylistic point of view. Pusey managed to conduct the whole affair without leaving the slightest trace of a mental truce between the forces who have opposed him. In his announcement, he lined himself squarely with "those great classes of graduates-largely from the 1920's and 1930's." and prepared to bow out with them...
Johnson said that he had not believed that there would be a Communist offensive during Tet-an agreed truce -but the Communists attacked anyway. "That was just too much to even believe a Communist would do," Johnson said. The hour was strewn with this and other longings for a simpler time...