Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretaries and their chiefs of staff. The military agreed that if war immediately threatened, the bill should be at least $50 billion, not $15 billion. Said Mahon: "These men did not predict an early outbreak of war, but they agreed that some unpredictable development might throw us suddenly into conflict . . . This, however, was not anticipated . . . No military leader has made the remotest suggestion that we should launch an unprovoked attack upon any country on earth . . . No military man before us recommended complete preparation for war. Nothing would please a potential enemy better than to have us bankrupt our country...
Without Magnolias is largely concerned with a kind of Negro life seldom treated in fiction: the academic and intellectual life. The most interesting conflict in the 'book develops between two men who, by type and training, are least inclined to go at each other's throats: the president of a small Negro college and the white editor of a small liberal newspaper. Each thinks he is working for equality, but Editor Cal Thornton is on the board that approves President Ezekiel Rogers' annual budget. To the shame of both of them, the time comes when Editor Thornton...
...conflict between the Maritains on the one hand, the Staces and Bridg-mans on the other, a decision was still distant. But there could be no doubt that the Maritain position, which was widely derided as the century began, had once more gained a growing following among troubled men searching for truth...
...extent of rent increases to be allowed was the only major conflict in the two bills. The Senate wanted a limit of two 5% jumps in twelve months, not to exceed an overall increase of 15% over the rental of June 1947. The House bill provided for a "reasonable return" to the landlord but didn't say how it was to be determined. In the end, Senate and House conferees compromised on a provision insuring landlords "a fair net operating income," to be determined by national and local rent officials...
...first-rate reporting job during his tour of duty is perhaps best exemplified by the now historic documents on the Tito-Stalin conflict, which ended in Moscow's excommunication of Marshal Tito. Low managed to get them in advance of general publication and, as printed in TIME'S August 23, 1948 issue, they were the first complete summary of this revealing correspondence. Other Low stories that you may recall include his account of the Communist guerrilla raid on the Greek town of Naousa (TIME, Jan. 31), and Patriot George Magalios and the American aid program for Greece...