Crossword-Solution: ARMISTICE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Armistice | n. | A cessation of arms for a short time, by convention; a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement; a truce. |
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Sentences with ARMISTICE (5)
When the army "turned him down flat," as he put it, he had entered the service of the Committee on Public Information, and had carried on mysterious activities in their behalf for over a year, up to the time when the armistice was signed by the United Press.
The short armistice over, the combat was resumed; but presently Charlotte and I, a little weary of contests and of missiles that ran shudderingly down inside one's clothes, forsook the trampled battle-field of the lawn and went exploring the blank virgin spaces of the white world that lay beyond.
Was it a summons to surrender? A request for an armistice for some purpose? Or was it a trick to ascertain their number and position? Some held one view, some another.
When the Armistice news came, and with it the possibility of Dike's return, Ben tried to fancy him fitting into the life of the city.
Though the armistice with Germany was signed a few weeks after her coming to Washington, the work of the bureau continued.
Quotes with ARMISTICE (3)
Then, already, it had brought to his mind the silence brooding over beds in which he had let men die. There as here it was the same solemn pause, the lull that follows battle; it was the silence of defeat. But the silence now enveloping his dead friend, so dense, so much akin to the nocturnal silence of the streets and of the town set free at last, made Rieux cruelly aware that this defeat was final, the last disastrous battle that ends a war and makes peace itself an ill bey…
Nick got home the first week in December, to find New York still wallowing in its post-Armistice euphoria. Service men were celebrities wherever they went, and nothing was too good for them-especially the ones who were wounded-until it came down to such practical matters as finding housing or a job... It too him awhile to come to the conclusion that all the talk about help for veterans was just that, and anything that was done for him would have to be done by himself.
Was Philip Dexter upset?""He's telephoned the office every day." She was pleased about that. "Who else was upset?""Everybody. Roosevelt orderded an hour of silence while you were on the table. Like Armistice Day.
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Appears in: NYT, Universal, WP.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1945–2014).