Word: truceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...control he would have over three classes of materials. It gave him kingly powers to shift war orders, make manufacturers toe his mark. But Charlie Wilson promised the armed services he would use the new powers only in an emergency and with their approval. Thus did he effect a truce with the Army & Navy...
...last organized Confederate resist ance east of the Mississippi was offered by Citadel cadets who engaged a band of raiders near Williamston, S.C. on May 9, 1865 - just a month after Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, where (says tradition) another Citadel man carried the flag of truce. Of The Citadel's 224 living graduates in 1864, some 200 served as Confederate officers...
...truce between religion and science has been based on the assumption of both most churchmen and most scientists that religion and science are separate realms, that the truth of God and the truth of the scientific world are complementary. Last spring FORTUNE published four philosophical articles by four learned professors,*all of them expounding this view in one form or another...
...Labor Party's young rank & file nearly broke the Party's wartime political truce with the Conservatives. For the truce: 1,275,000. Against...
...took the highest court in the British Empire-Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London-to pull the battlers apart, get them to sign a truce. Last March this tribunal decided a four-year-old Canadian suit, bluntly told Coca-Cola it had no exclusive right to the word "cola," because it came from the African cola (or kola) nut, was thus public property...