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Chaimberlin "appeased" Hitler by handing over Czechoslovakia to him, not by talking to him.

Blitzer: Obama's learned - 'attack right back' 2008

The current uneasy state is one in which, largely speaking, the conservatives are being appeased from a reluctance to risk that break.

The Heirs of Job Hal Duncan 2006

So let me get this straight after 6 years later after 33 million civilians and 17 million military dead and trillions upon trillions of dollars, the worlds greatest military finally corners a guy who Neville Chamberlain appeased … despite his ambitions to take over the world in his book … after all Hitler was anti slaughter and anti smoking …

Think Progress » Breaking: Terrorist Zarqawi Killed in Iraq Air Strikes 2006

The current uneasy state is one in which, largely speaking, the conservatives are being appeased from a reluctance to risk that break.

Archive 2006-02-01 Hal Duncan 2006

The captain appeased the coolies 'fears by stating that they should go off in the pilot's boat.

Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days 1890

Ideologically, the Clinton administration was committed to the idea that most terrorists were misunderstood, had legitimate grievances, and could be appeased, which is why such military action as the administration authorized was so halfhearted, and ineffective, and designed more for 'show' than for honestly eliminating a threat. ""

Archive 2008-08-01 Not a sheep 2008

I just thought you might get a kick out of that, and--perhaps--feel a bit more "appeased" as well.

I think I'm going to have to stop watching "American Idol." Ann Althouse 2008

(For those of you who don't remember or didn't pay attention in Grade 10 World History, Neville Chamberlain was the British Prime Minister who "appeased" Hitler in 1938; he was voted out of office shortly after the start of World War II in 1939 and was succeeded by Winston Churchill.)

November 2005 2005

Further, the US never "appeased" Iraq, so the Chamberlain/Churchill reference is irrelevant.

"President Bush got the world's attention this fall when he warned that a nuclear-armed Iran might lead to World War III." Ann Althouse 2007

The producer just kind of appeased him... nodded and stuff.

THE NEWS BLOG 2005