Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...business grew, she acquired a 90-acre estate on Long Island. But social demands were never allowed to conflict with business. Soon after she married her second husband, an architect named Robert L. Dodge, he went to work for the company...
...Taft, from statesmanlike and other motives, has become the lion for the American way of life, leading him into the desired political conflict with President Truman. Ignoring the facts that you can't make even a labor union much weaker merely by a law, and that you can't decrease government funds and still bear a growing world responsibility, he has helped put on his majority party blinkers that hide almost everything but campaign politics. Meanwhile the world looks on, wondering what to expect from its most powerful component...
...four other subscribing powers would consist of twenty divisions, 1250 bombers, 2250 pursuit planes, and a variegated complement of assault ships and cruisers. The total number of men involved might approach the million mark, but the force would in any event be large enough to "halt any conflict, though not too large to constitute too heavy a burden," as the French delegation reservedly...
...cities, as always, the warnings of conflict and disorder were sharpest. Throngs of wartime jobholders were idle. In sweltering Calcutta, it took but the flick of a Moslem cigaret butt against the flanks of a sacred Hindu cow, or a Hindu tonga driver's bumping a Moslem child, to start a fight that would engulf the city. Last week Calcutta was still divided into "Pakistan" and "Hindustan" quarters, with strong points bristling with .barbed wire and machine guns. A Hindu driver dared not cross into a Moslem quarter, nor a Moslem into "Hindustan." In Bombay, where Hindus and Moslems...
When U.S. citizens did think about the rest of the world-and thousands did, every day-it was generally in terms of the big conflict between the U.S. and Red Russia. Yet there were many moves in the world, not only along the main highway between Washington and Moscow, but on the other, more remote, and no less important roads...