Word: clashingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Near Chu Lai, 320 miles northeast of Saigon, four U.S. Marines were killed and four others wounded in a clash with the Viet Cong...
Director Luciano Salce brings The Fascist to a conclusion that is almost too sobering for the farcical war preceding it, and he occasionally repeats an effect needlessly. His talent lies in choosing witty, nimble metaphors to give life to the clash of values between his two protagonists. When Tognazzi starts rolling his own cigarettes, expropriating for the purpose a page from the professor's miniature volume of poems by Leopardi, the professor watches a classic poem burn, then resignedly selects for his own smoke "a minor work." Both men understate their roles in virtuoso style, whether locked in ideological...
...continuing clash of personalities and political purposes between President Lyndon Johnson and New York's Senator Robert Kennedy, there "is a meaning which may continue to agitate the Democratic Party for some years to come...
Baruch and Harry Truman, two strong-willed men whose personalities were bound to clash, finally parted ways in 1948. In an angry outburst that was never meant to see print-but was nonetheless published by Columnist Westbrook Pegler-Baruch at that time blistered Truman as "a rude, uncouth, ignorant man." Truman, for his part, was more restrained. "His concern," he wrote of Baruch in his memoirs, "was really whether he would receive public recognition. He had always seen to it that his suggestions and recommendations, not always requested by the President, would be given publicity...
Meanwhile, the 14th Conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers managed to work its way through an unexciting agenda. Predictably, the only bitter clash of the conference concerned the future of Rhodesia, which is clamoring for independence. Led by Ghana's Nkrumah, the black African Commonwealth nations demanded that Britain head off efforts by the colony's Prime Minister, Ian Smith, to ensure that Rhodesia's constitution will perpetuate white supremacy. The Africans wanted Britain to order one-man, one-vote elections within three months' time. Wilson, while promising to work toward majority rule by Rhodesia...