Word: vivendi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their dismay, the Soviets discovered that the gift of a little freedom simply whetted their subjects' appetite for more. One result: bloody revolution in Hungary. Another: the rise to power in Poland of "National Communist" Wladyslaw Gomulka, who accepted aid from the U.S., reached a modus vivendi with the Vatican, and ruled with the toleration of restive Poles, who did not wish another Budapest...
...possession of the western territories taken from Germany after World War II, socialization of Poland and expansion of industry, while the state guaranteed continued freedom of worship, religious education and the church press. Cardinal Sapieha, behind whose back Wyszynski had negotiated the armistice, muttered: "This is not a modus vivendi but a modus moriendi." And a way of dying it certainly appeared...
...amity between the Arabs and Israel, amelioration of the refugees' lot and improvement of the Egyptian and other Arab nations' living conditions will somewhat remove the powerful economic goad to friction between the Arabs and Israel. Though there will be no love between the two groups, establishing a modus vivendi might eventually lead to Arab recognition of Israel, a peace treaty, and the realization that both nations must cooperate to solve interdependent economic problems of the Middle East...
Followed by counterespionage agents, his telephone tapped while he was heading the American desk at the Foreign Office, Maclean was allegedly driven to desperation, while the hell-raising Burgess was depicted as a man racked with "the greatest anxiety . . . caused by the fact that at first no modus vivendi was reached be tween the East and West, and later on no attempts were made to reach...
...matter how much they reassure the United States public and ease the immediate crisis--can cover up basic contradictions in U.S. Far Eastern policy. For the United States is at once attempting to support Chiang Kai-shek militarily, to keep the Western alliance together, and to negotiate a "modus vivendi"--to use the President phrase--with Communist China...