Word: truce
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...casualties, which the dwindling French forces could not afford. "A few more victories like this." boasted British Commodore Sir Sidney Smith to Nelson, "will annihilate the French army.'' It was never annihilated, but a year and a half after Napoleon returned to France, the French negotiated a truce and then withdrew...
...operators to contribute to the United Mine Workers welfare fund, forced most of the mines in eastern Kentucky to close. For three months a state of war existed between the operators and the miners. Then winter, a disastrous flood, and a series of apparent agreements forced a temporary truce. The hills are turning green again, however; prepartions for a renewed struggle are proceding rapidly...
...German commandant takes a hard look at his position. He holds the city, but he might as well be holding a nest of vipers. The Allies are advancing, and he obviously cannot fight them and the Neapolitans too. Humbly he requests the victorious vulgarians to grant him a truce; ingloriously the Wehrmacht scuttles out of town...
Hopefully, the truce will diminish neither the conviction nor the number of the dissatisfied Faculty members. At his most recent interview, Dean Ford told the CRIMSON that the CLGS would appear on the Faculty docket in May. At that time, the new policy must be changed...
...offered could not have been more correct. The weaknesses in the present Cum Laude in General Studies policy are obvious to most of the Faculty. If this majority did not choose to manifest its opposition in January, its inaction should be attributed to gracious compliance with a hastily called truce, rather than to doubts about political strength...