Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forcing the crowd back towards the Square, the police came into conflict with the surging mob, and in the melee they arrested the seven and hustled them off in patrol wagons...
...most important bill to come before Congress in 100 years," Colonel McGuire called his (and Mr. Walter's) bill. Why this could be said without extravagant exaggeration, Columnist Mark Sullivan explained: "It [the bill] goes to the heart of what is troubling this country and the world-the conflict between the rights of man and the authority of Government. ... [It provides] that where-ever an agency of Government attempts to exercise power over a citizen . . . every man shall be entitled to his day in court." Nobody quarreled with this objective, nor disputed its implication. But four days of debate...
...possible for any citizen of the United States to look clearly and objectively at this country today and not burn with shame at the revolting sight of its neutrality? Neutrality means impartiality and indifference. A United States which has proclaimed to the world in the face of the stupendous conflict between justice and injustice, law and anarchy, reason and brutality, now raging in Europe-- that it prefers to stand neutral, is a United States in which the very spirit of its foundations and its development has rotted away. . . . Do we hesitate because we consider American lives of more value than...
...French believed the nerves of Nazi statesmen had cracked, plunging the Reich into a course of naval and military recklessness. "They reverse their policy of not extending the conflict and extend it precisely into the field where we are immensely superior-into the sea-because they know they are cornered," exulted Premier Reynaud...
...dimension. As a parable, for example, it offers food for thought to those who have sight but waste it. As a tract it is a severe corrective to the mindlessness of the D. H. Lawrence preachings on sex. As Elizabeth Bowen says, "the disabusedness, and the absence of conflict, make this un-English writing"; as she does not say, they make it something like French writing. And this un-Englishness may be the book's most obvious aspect as a portent of things to come, if the war in Europe should (improbably) lead to a genuine interpenetration of English...