Word: clashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest clash of interests centers about parking space. It seems that tax-type citizens object to members of Dunster and Leverett Houses usurping the streets that surrounded those Houses. City Councillor Sullivan sides with the taxpayers. He figures that they should have the advantage of those parking spaces, despite the fact that it is theoretically as illegal for tax-payers to park there as it is for students. But anyone who has beaten the system by parking overnight--without ever being ticketed--on those streets that are generally filled with Massachusetts license plates know that theory is a very relative...
...Crimson boats will meet the favored Engineers at 12:30 p.m. Earlier this year, the sailors defeated M.I.T. in the informal "Hot Mugg" race, but an improved group of skippers may be able to reverse the outcome in the second clash between the two teams...
...Hill. In the U.S. "His command to the rich to 'sell all that thou hast and give to the poor' might make Him suspect of 'Communist' leanings. His preaching might fall into the category of 'unAmerican activities.' But provided He didn't clash too badly . . . He would probably be invited to speak at women's clubs, and His teaching would be regarded as a new cult worthy of the attention of 'progressive' females with nothing better...
With Stalin's backing, Zhukov went to Germany in the 19203 to attend lecture courses on armor. He was later to clash with his instructors on the civil war battlefields of Spain...
James later regretted his brashness, and still later, U.S. readers did adopt Walt Whitman as a national poet, but the clash between the two men dramatized the perennially split personality of American writing. Critic Philip Rahv has aptly defined it as a clash between "paleface and redskin." This is critical shorthand for the interrelated battles of highbrow v. lowbrow, refined sensibility v. raw energy, the tradition-directed writer v. the self-made writer. The palefaces, e.g., Hawthorne, Melville, James, ruled the 19th century; the redskins, e.g., Dreiser, Anderson, Wolfe, Hemingway, Faulkner, rule the 20th. As the first great chief...