Word: vivendi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Under the pretext of Atlantic solidarity, they are asking France to take precautions against the Soviet danger before taking precautions against the German danger," cried rightist General Adolphe Aumeran. "Without our agreement Amer ica will not dare rearm Germany." Insisted Gaullist Jacques Soustelle: "Every effort to get a modus vivendi with the East must be sought first. Logic dictates it . . . an alliance with Russia is a geopolitical must for France." Complained old Paul Reynaud, the man who was Premier in 1940 when France fell: "The Paris accords give the political hegemony to England and the military hegemony to Germany." Doddering...
...would be difficult to put into effect. "Not that the men in office lack patriotism and personal capability," he said; "the ardor, the worth and vigor of the present Premier are there as proof." De Gaulle insisted that before finally rearming Germany, France should lead negotiations for "a modus vivendi" with Russia. The week's dramas had demonstrated one thing: as of now the French Assembly wants Mendès to be the man who shoulders the responsibility for German rearmament. Whether it will go along with his social and economic ideas early next year will be another matter...
...West itself. ¶ Churchill publicly proclaimed that Britain would not lift a finger to save IndoChina until all possibility of making a deal at Geneva had been exhausted. By a deal, the British delegation made clear, they meant partition. ¶In Washington, President Eisenhower talked of a modus vivendi, told his press conference that the West was caught between the unattainable and the unacceptable. The most the U.S. could ask for in Indo-China, he said, was a practical basis for getting along one with the other, something like the U.S. has been doing with the Communists in Berlin...
...result of past experience the relations of student and teacher at Harvard have come to be governed by a series of unwritten laws similar in a way to the British Constitution, a flexible modus vivendi capable of reinterpretation and development to fit new needs, as in the case of Parietal Rule changes last year. These changes in the attendance system now under consideration seem to me to violate the well-established and effective convention that student attendance at lectures, etc., is a purely voluntary and individual matter. From my own contacts with the Harvard administration I have received the impression...
...deliberately attempting to maintain a state of affairs delicately suspended between peace and war, while at present desiring neither. This is a most dangerous policy, and one which world opinion will increasingly condemn, if you continue to resist any move to obtain at least a less dangerous modus vivendi with your neighbor...