Word: truceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...uneasy truce prevailed in the subcontinent. Mohamed Ali Jinnah for the Moslem League, and Jawaharlal Nehru for the All-India Congress, had accepted the plan which meant that at least two new nations, Hindustan and Pakistan, would arise in India. Finally, Mohandas Gandhi gave his acquiescence...
...rule most of the southern tribesmen, thinks the army exists only to suppress tribesmen, fears ambitious officers may attempt a coup d'état. He said recently: "Since the days of Reza Shah,* every private thinks he can become a dictator." But the tribesmen concluded an uneasy truce with the central Government, surrendered a few beloved rifles as a token of good will. Only the Kurds in the north still refused to relinquish their arms, gave Gavam an excuse to say that election was being delayed...
...Zealand's Sir Carl Berendsen pleaded for a "true truce of God" [in Palestine] during the U.N. inquiry. "Let all passions be stilled." (Next day, Jewish terrorists blew up the Crusaders' Castle in Acre, now a prison, and released 251 Jewish and Arab prisoners, including 80 terrorists. The dead in an hour's gun battle: 14 Jews, one Arab...
...adless Daily News reached 80,000 circulation despite pickets around the building. Its circulation is now half what the entire monopoly's was before the strike. People bought it, ignoring strikers' pleas to take out-of-town papers instead. Sherman Bowles has reached a truce with his pressmen and stereotypers and hopes to talk his printers into working without a contract. His dispirited employees of the Newspaper Guild, who struck only after he fired them, might be left out in the cold if the other unions went back to work...
...this week opened, the Lenten season demand for fresh fish forced the price of haddock above the union's minimum, brought about a temporary truce between the fishermen and boat-owners. But much of last week's unsold catch was condemned by the state health inspector, sold for fish meal and fertilizer. Price...