Word: truce
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After five years of armed truce, blockade and counter-blockade, the Kuomintang and Communist Governments last May began haggling over unity terms. Chungking offered to recognize the Communists as a legal party but demanded that they acknowledge Kuomintang suzerainty. Yenan (Communist capital) countered with sweeping proposals for national economic and political reform...
...farmer until he lost his mind. Failing in their efforts to organize a militia, the whites and blacks of Carwell barricaded themselves inside the big plantation house. Marcus, Gideon's youngest son, was shot while trying to get help. Jeff was murdered after answering an appeal under truce to help some wounded Klansmen. In a brief three-day siege, the plantation house and all its contents were destroyed...
...commander pleaded for Auloch's surrender, to avoid more senseless killing. Medical supplies for his wounded went in under flag of truce; a captured German woman, reputedly the Colonel's mistress, carried one offer of honorable surrender to him. A captured chaplain relayed an ultimatum. Auloch's reply: "Capitulation to an American is not compatible with the honor of a German soldier...
...armed truce that exists between mules and plowboys during the long cotton-growing season was broken for one day only. The jockeys rode bareback (or muleback as Deltans say) with the assistance of knees, heels, hands and profanity. What the mules lacked in speed they made up "for in mulishness. They balked, wheeled, vaulted over fences, ran countertrackwise. The crowd howled with delight and kept pulling at its corn...
...full-fledged nurse's aide, whom war has robbed of Fiance Walker. Miss Temple, too young for boys, misses her father intensely and has an innocent crush on Monty Woolley. Mr. Woolley becomes so thoroughly domesticated in the U.S. Home that he even calls a truce with Soda, a huge, wallowing, old, white bulldog who is perhaps the surest-fire character in this sure-fire picture...