Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exploitation was to be brought to a close. But this was also a society in which his class and the ideology, of his class could play no part. Admiring its positive achievements but unable to adjust himself to its conditions, he chose suicide as a resolution of this conflict. This was certainly a more honorable solution than to flee to Washington and reaction in the manner of Mikolajczyk and Nagy...
...seems to me that the training and preparation of vast armies . . . has been definitely outdated by the atomic bomb. In the event of any future conflict the most vulnerable point of attack will be any point where people are massed together. ... Armies as we have known them are as out-of-date now as the bow & arrow, and the sooner we realize it the better...
...attitude of simultaneous submission and antagonism to his father; an "unconscious passive homosexual disposition" and a feeling of guilt over masturbation during adolescence; a self-centered, shy, shut-in personality that craves devotion and spins fantasies of glory but is haunted by a sense of inadequacy and inner conflict...
When Joseph E. Brown took the memorable part of Polo Joe, an allergic equestrian, in a 1936 pursuit cinema, he probably set polo back 10 years. The late conflict finished the job, and for five years the erstwhile diversion of Tibetan bandits has been as extinct as the Fiji dodo bird...
...hurtle nonchalantly down the slopes say it's the actual schussing; others who hurtle awkwardly into snowdrifts aren't so sure; the beginner can't stay on his feet long enough to reach a conclusion. A small portion of male skiers and a far larger female contingent end this conflict by deciding it's the social lift that makes the ski weekend. These, dear reader, are the snowbunnies...