Word: truce
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...much of the current upward surge is due to the Government's truce with Business no man can say. Nevertheless, Dun & Bradstreet last week found the state of trade and sentiment so strong that they thought it foreshadowed a business revival "without parallel in modern commercial history for the abruptness of its rise and the intensity of its pursuance...
Then after reading some "boners" with which freshmen at one of the great western colleges had answered their intelligence tests, Copey recited Kipling's "Truce of the Bear," and read Finley Dunne's "Mr. Dooley on Kipling" and Stephen Leacock's "My Financial Career...
...brought pieces of hay, and, literally, walled him in. The hay was patted in place, to the full height of the cage, so that she might not see him. She herself was totally without bedding ultimately. The state of siege lasted for some six or seven hours, when a truce was apparently arranged...
...truce has been negotiated between the World Zionist Executive and its most rambunctious hecklers, the semi-Fascist Zionist-Revisionists led by the fiery Russian poet Vladimir Jabotinsky...
...sentimental outcry against the exterior manifestations of international antagonism will accomplish nothing, and even a return to the principle of parity, which would require sweeping concessions from the U. S., would only postpone the trouble. While one potential aggressor darkens the future, peace is only a truce, and if we would prolong that interlude, it is necessary to accomplish more than a reduction of navies...