Word: clashingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pace of Change. The conflict between the hierarchy and its flock is a tragic but perhaps inevitable clash between generations in which merit can be found on both sides. As one sympathetic Spanish layman put it, "The bishops fear a return to the chaos of the past, and with good reason. Yet the younger clergy, which is not burdened with Spanish history, looks to the future." Both aging prelates and youthful priests agree that a transformation of the church in the light of the council is inevitable; what divides them is the pace of such change...
...score was as delicate and intricate as a spider web, interlaced with the chatter of small untuned drums and plunking strings reminiscent of Oriental music. The most impressive achievement was that, in mixing such disparate elements as modern dissonances, a morality play and No drama, there was no clash of styles but rather a smooth melding into what is a new and wholly engaging musical form...
...downtown Dacca, jittery shopkeepers clanked their corrugated front doors shut and raced for home. Trains were derailed, cars were stoned and burned, tires were slashed. In one howling clash with police, four rioters were killed. At Narayanganj, 15 miles south of Dacca, rioters armed with shotguns stormed a police station, and seven more were gunned down. In Tejgaon, some 20,000 swarmed angrily into the streets, looking for trouble...
However, it is thought that negotiations through private, rather than diplomatic channels would serve to avert a clash between the two nations...
...threat of direct nuclear clash between the U.S. and Russia has all but vanished for the foreseeable future. The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 taught Moscow how easy it is to slide from cold war gamesmanship toward white-hot holocaust, and the knowledge was profoundly sobering. The possibility of a sneak nuclear attack, while not entirely discounted, is pretty well ruled out by military men; the attacker could not himself escape destruction. Says Herman Kahn, the physicist and Government consultant who popularized the term "escalation": "Barring a blowup in Eastern Europe, there will be no confrontation with the Soviets...