Word: clashingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there's a clash between protesting inroads on the individual and increasing the inroad abortion represents---protecting children more from their patents and saying you can only kill them before they're born," Bok said...
...lately the courts have been seeing things differently. In the past year three newsmen* have come out second best in arguments with the courts. Last week the courts won another round in the clash between the press and the law. U.S. District Court Judge John Sirica ordered John Lawrence, Washington bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times, to hand over tapes of his newspaper's interview with the chief prosecution witness in the Watergate bugging case. When Lawrence refused, Sirica ordered him jailed...
Despite all of the differences newly injected by Hanoi, Kissinger contended that most were readily reconcilable if the Communists would only return to the cooperative spirit shown last October. He reported that only one really basic clash remained; "we are one decision away from a settlement." Kissinger did not spell it out, but it was apparent that this question touched on one of the fundamental issues of the entire war: are there two Viet Nams engaged in international conflict, or is there one country temporarily divided by an arbitrary frontier and engaged in a civil...
...obviously a mismatch." Harvard coach Jack Barnaby said after the clash. "MIT just doesn't have the experienced players who can compete with...
...their half-whimsical, half-serious catalogue, the literate authors' own highly ambivalent feelings about the art of rhetoric emerge: "It is the bag of crafty tricks for common word-mongers; it is the sublime esthetic for the consummate orator." That plainly smacks of enthymeme ("out of the seeming clash of contraries a meaning"), as in "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...