Word: truceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proclaimed an all-out struggle for control in Manchuria, where the Russians were slowly pulling out. Factional bitterness was weirdest at Kaiyuan, Manchuria, where the Government's U.S.-trained First Army had broken through a Communist blockade on the road north. There, when a Government-Communist-U.S. truce team arrived, the First Army's commander promptly put the Communist trucemakers in protective confinement, lest they be shot or captured by Communist forces...
Maybe most people agreed (and still do) with Critic Cox, but most young artists did not. The paintbrush war was over; the modern beachhead was secure. Both sides could settle down to the uneasy truce, punctuated by journalistic skirmishes, which exists today...
...stoppages in four and a half years, stubbornly shook their heads, talked of selling their boats to foreign nations, buying the catch at one cent a pound below Boston prices. But at week's end, best bet was that labor and management would get together in an armed truce to take up the defense against the foreign invasion. To Boston fishermen, even crow makes better eating than foreign...
Since Government and Communists had agreed to extend their uneasy truce to the northeast, the fighting at Kaiyuan seemed ominous. Chungking reported that disagreement on "fundamentals" had delayed the flight of Government-Communist-U.S. truce teams into the trouble zones. Mukden, where U.S. truce officers had arrived, was a prime exhibit in the Manchurian mixup. Items...
...wholly modern. In Shanghai, they staged a spectacular two-day strike against exorbitant rentals charged by the ricksha owners. The metropolis of 3,000,000 hiked to shop and office, jammed itself inhumanely in over-jammed trolleys. The municipal government's social affairs bureau mediated a truce while coolies and hong owners negotiated to fix standard rates...