Word: truceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmer until he lost his mind. Failing in their efforts to organize a militia, the whites and blacks of Carwell barricaded themselves inside the big plantation house. Marcus, Gideon's youngest son, was shot while trying to get help. Jeff was murdered after answering an appeal under truce to help some wounded Klansmen. In a brief three-day siege, the plantation house and all its contents were destroyed...
...commander pleaded for Auloch's surrender, to avoid more senseless killing. Medical supplies for his wounded went in under flag of truce; a captured German woman, reputedly the Colonel's mistress, carried one offer of honorable surrender to him. A captured chaplain relayed an ultimatum. Auloch's reply: "Capitulation to an American is not compatible with the honor of a German soldier...
...armed truce that exists between mules and plowboys during the long cotton-growing season was broken for one day only. The jockeys rode bareback (or muleback as Deltans say) with the assistance of knees, heels, hands and profanity. What the mules lacked in speed they made up "for in mulishness. They balked, wheeled, vaulted over fences, ran countertrackwise. The crowd howled with delight and kept pulling at its corn...
...full-fledged nurse's aide, whom war has robbed of Fiance Walker. Miss Temple, too young for boys, misses her father intensely and has an innocent crush on Monty Woolley. Mr. Woolley becomes so thoroughly domesticated in the U.S. Home that he even calls a truce with Soda, a huge, wallowing, old, white bulldog who is perhaps the surest-fire character in this sure-fire picture...
...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...