Word: truceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sovereignty for What? It doesn't seem to matter much now whether a truce [with the Communists] will come or not. Real peace is nowhere in sight. The military prospect is predominance in the field by the Nationalists, and guerrilla disruption of communications by the Communists...
...between the union and the Dominion Marine Association. At first, management accepted the eight-hour day in principle, provided the union made no other wage demands. But as the strike continued, the parties drew apart. Angrily the owners charged the union with breach of its contract. A four-day truce, tentatively accepted by the negotiators, was flatly spurned by the two biggest operators...
...this strangely limited (but nonetheless dangerous) civil war, negotiations and fighting blended. Was the fall of Changchun, for instance, a battle or a deal? Chiang Kai-shek had demanded that this city, the Japanese-built capital of Manchuria, be handed over to his troops as part of a new truce agreement to replace the pact that the Communists broke. No one ever announced that the Reds had agreed. But suddenly last week Chiang's General Tu Liming led his troops 67 miles in four days up Manchuria's spine. As he stormed Changchun, the Reds withdrew limply...
...spite of the truce, engineers and trainmen did not go back to work until they had heard from their union bosses- and the word was slow in coming. They made it evident that Harry Truman was not their boss. The temper of the men who have been called "the aristocrats of labor" was clearly for a show of their power. Many grumbled because the strike had not come off as planned: "This was our chance, and we've muffed it." At a trainmen's meeting in New York City, announcement of the postponement was roundly booed. Hudson & Manhattan...
...show by proclaiming the end of a strike 15 minutes before Roosevelt went on the air to castigate him, he now spoiled Harry Truman's show. Three hours before he was due at the White House, he ordered his miners back to work-not permanently, but for a truce of twelve days...