Word: truce
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...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...
...young learn fast when they learn at all, sometimes in a few years of running through a range of experience and self-realization that once used to take decades. What The Band has worked out is something that countless other Americans hope for, a sort of watchful, self-protective truce with the encroaching world of noisy commerce. Robbie Robertson said it for them all when he was asked if they worry about being uninvolved, about living such an isolated life. "Live outside what's going on?" he replied. "Well, look what's going on. You almost have to live outside...
Even Split. After the defeat, the Syndicate made a truce with Indira. But the rivalry flared up again in September after Congress Strategist Kunaeaswami Kamaraj maneuvered one of Indira's supporters out of the presidency of a state Congress organization. In retaliation, Indira opened a drive to fire Congress President Siddavanahalli Nijalingappa, who is a Syndicate member...