Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between Galahad Eden and Appeaser Neville Chamberlain was Sir Robert, trying on the one hand to come to terms with Germany, on the other to set a limit to British retreat. He came into conflict with both Eden and the appeasers, and at the end of 1937 he lost his job as Permanent Under Secretary. The title of Diplomatic Adviser meant exactly the opposite...
Deac Aylesworth's immediate job is to let as much light as possible into the murk beclouding the average U.S. citizen's notion of life Down There; also to see that southbound programs do not conflict, hurt anybody's feelings or suffer from the dreary blight of what is known as "education"-in general, to make them make sense...
...binders board, seven miles of bookbinding cloth, and 4,000 pounds of paper. Glycerin, a vital component of book-binding glue, is also used in explosives; for this reason the Bindery obtained three years' supply of glue--one and a half tons--so that its demands would not conflict with those of the OPM and national defense...
...tragic conflict which the world witnesses today and which threatens everything we have most loved as a free people, we see more clearly than ever before the unyielding strength of things of the spirit...
With a terrible, pregnant symbolism, World War II jumped last week from the birthplace of democracy to the birthplace of mankind. Five days after Athens fell, fighting broke out in Iraq, traditional site of the Garden of Eden. In its beginning the new conflict was a minor embarrassment to Britain; in its potentialities it was a threat as serious as any the British Empire had yet suffered...