Word: vivendi
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...Wyszynski, 60. Making his first Vatican visit in three years for the ostensible purpose of helping to prepare for next fall's Ecumenical Council, the tough-minded Primate obviously had another mission as well: to brief Pope John XXIII on the Polish Church's increasingly uneasy modus vivendi with its Communist Caesars...
...change in U.S. policy. After all the talk of a new Berlin agreement, the U.S. seemed, in effect, ready to settle for the status quo-including the Wall. In exchange, the U.S. expected Nikita Khrushchev to relax some of his pressure on Berlin, agree informally to a modus vivendi that would leave Western rights in the city undisturbed...
This year it was different. Rocky stuck to his guns in Albany, worked out a modus vivendi, if not a marriage, with Mahoney-and the G.O.P. majority quick-stepped behind his program. Happily fingering the more than 1,200 bills that the legislature had passed before adjourning, Rockefeller could see many green stamps that can presumably be turned in for votes next year when he runs for re-election as Governor. There was a juicy 10% state income tax rebate guaranteed to please nearly every voter. The first state law to end discrimination in some types of private housing...
...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...