Word: truce
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...liked playing soldiers even better than playing husband, insisted on leading the Spanish armies into battle. From Paris, Queen Elisabeth ordered a snappy military suit of blue and silver (fighting was suspended while the new costume was passed through the hostile lines to her under a flag of truce), charged at the head of the troops with her quixotic husband. Patrols-under strict orders to avoid "all unnecessary embarrassments"-had a hard time to keep from capturing the royal pair. Alberoni had an equally hard time running the battles and cooking the Queen's meals. "This sort of existence...
Adler says flatly that there can be no peace between sovereign states; at best there can be nothing more than an uneasy "truce," a period of jockeying and diplomatic cheating preliminary to the next outbreak of armed conflict. Mr. Lippmann is Adler's particular semantic bete noire, for Mr. Lippmann is always using the word "peace" when Adler thinks he should be speaking of "truce" or "armistice." The average reader may think this a matter of verbal quibble, for Mr. Lippmann uses the word peace with the full knowledge that there are kinds and degrees of peace...
...Soldier Edward Martin and Puddler Jim were exhausting the vocabulary of political innuendo at each other in the race for Pennsylvania's Governorship. But last week Governor Martin had Puddler Jim over to dinner at the gloomy, gabled Governor's Mansion. They signed a truce. Puddler Jim, faced with fighting alone, had wandered far astray, looking for votes and support; to Old Guard horror, he had even been making cooing noises at Wendell Willkie. Unchecked, such mavericking might disrupt the Old Guard's cozy desire to send an uninstructed (i.e., anti-Willkie) delegation to the Republican convention...
...afternoon last week the two sides arranged a 105-minute truce to remove the dead and wounded. Seventy-five U.S. medics recrossed the Rapido. As one of the wounded was lifted into a litter, he grinned weakly and said: "Look, I have maid service...
...Labor Party was equally complacent: it read out Manchester's Laborite Alderman and former Mayor Joe Toole for violating the Party truce, entering Skipton's race as an Independent. The local Conservatives put up a Party worker, 61-year-old Harry Riddiough. Socialistic Sir Richard Acland's up-&-coming Common Wealth Party entered young (31) Lieut. Hugh Lawson of the Royal Engineers...