Word: concessional
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What Murdoch did was to work out a "me too" deal, first with pressmen, whose walkout shut down the papers Aug. 9, then with several other unions that joined the strike against the three papers after they stopped publishing. The pact allows the Post to go to press immediately, and...
As the thermometer hovered around 40, the concession stands ran out of coffee and hot chocolate long before the Yankees ran out of hits. The Yankee nine sent two Dodger pitchers to the showers with 11 hits in the first four innings.
The cheering started up in the tent a quarter of an hour before King made his entrance. "Dump the Duke," they chanted, although the just-announced concession speech made that sentiment a bit dated. Then a touch of originality: "The Duke is dead, long live the King," on and on...
King stood up on a platform, looking more than a bit confused, a man who obviously began the night with a concession speech in his pocket and hadn't found the time to waste on something as frivolous as a victory speech. He started in on a litany of campaign...
That was quite a concession since one Democratic Senate candidate on whose behalf she came to Texas, Congressman Robert Krueger, has cast only a few more votes for the President's programs than has his opponent, G.O.P. Senator John Tower. But Krueger is friendlier than the Democratic candidate for...