Word: truceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Publications Truce...
...rebellion had got so out of hand that the British either had to clear out of Ireland, dispatch a considerable military force or negotiate. They chose negotiation. A truce was called and de Valera sent five men to London to talk peace. They signed late that year a treaty establishing dominion status for Ireland, but permitting the six predominantly Protestant northern counties to withdraw...
Last week Superman dropped down out of the sky on a mythical European war front. While shrapnel and machine-gun bullets ricocheted harmlessly off his impervious body, Superman called a 30-minute truce on hostilities between Blitzen and Rutland, dashed off under the eyes of bemused soldiers to "expose this war as a mockery...
...truce between Republicans and Democrats...
...logic of this argument is impelling. Against it are the now familiar arguments that no peace, however negotiated, can be more than a truce unless Hitler is destroyed; and that the powers would not consider a peace suggestion for a moment...