Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over 33 months, Russia had been fighting for more than five, China continuously for 59. At the end of six months a major victory for U.S. arms is still to be recorded and more defeats are all too likely. But U.S. strength had changed the nature of the conflict...
...guard on the next to last day. In a silencingly eloquent speech he got the Assembly to declare that "the cause for which our nation is at war is just and righteous, and that our freedom, our culture and our historic faith are dependent upon the outcome of this conflict." This is the nearest a major church on either side of the lines has officially come to calling World War II a holy...
...believe me that this opposition of mine is no mere political dispute; it is a deep conflict of principle. I hold that no man should ascend to the bench to pass upon the rights, even the lives, of other men when he is obligated to a political boss.... Still worse, it seems to me, would be a judge long associated with and long beholden to a man who says that and acts as if the law begins and ends with himself." So wrote Governor Edison of New Jersey...
There are serious flaws in the script, but Raphaelson writes clean-cut dialogue with some stimulating conversation between critic and playwright. Had he been content to omit the love angle and concentrate more heavily on the conflict between the two men, there would have been a better play...
...draftee. And what man could be more valuable to the nation's war effort than the anthropologist, who, by virtue of his explorations in the Far East and South Seas, is an authority on regions over which the United Nations must regain control in order to win the present conflict...