Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard Hall reconverted to its old peacetime uses, but another revolution soon began, known as the "Rotton Cabbage Rebellion." between the students and the food they were being served. Among other incidents, this conflict once found 600 grains of tartar emetic applied to the College's morning coffee (with disastrous results), and a student suspended after he "did publickly in Hall insult the authority of the College by hitting one of the Officers with a potatoe." By 1816 the expanding collection of books and apparatus squeezed out the Commons to the newly-erected University Hall, and the whole second floor...
...Deadly Conflict. President Truman's speech (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) called for new alignments and new directions in every country in the world. Many a paragraph in it clawed crabwise before the winds of political expediency. It left a lot of questions unanswered (example: Why was it right for the U.S. to fight Communists' efforts to enter the Greek Government when it had lately been urging Chiang Kai-shek to take Communists into the Chinese Government?). Nevertheless, the total purport of the message was clear to the world: the U.S., realizing (however dimly and belatedly) that it was engaged...
President Truman's declaration of policy, on the other hand, seems to assume an inescapable conflict between the two principal ideas now struggling for the mastery of the age: democracy and communism...
...conflict is unnecessary, says Father D'Arcy. After ranging from Aristotle to Jung, he echoes the traditional Catholic synthesis between Greek and biblical elements, concluding that Christian love must be both selfish and selfless...
There is some honest historical conflict, and a bit of honest unhappiness, in this movie. Spencer Tracy too often gazes stonily at God's sea of grass to show that he is both rugged individualist and nature mystic, but he plays with considerable force and style. As the decades roll by, Melvyn Douglas looks as wretched as the most vindictive moralist could decently expect. Miss Hepburn looks tense too, but arouses interest chiefly through her beautiful turn-of-the-century costumes...