Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British officialdom was ready with instructions to cope with any emergency that might arise from the conflict. In the case of seaborne invasion, the British Museum had issued a neat booklet telling Britons what to do if they should find a whale on their beach. The prescribed procedure was simple: fill out a form (N.H.M. Form 136 tidily enclosed in the booklet), and mail it to the Keeper of Zoology. Question No. 1 on the form read: "Is the tail horizontal?" Since all whales have horizontal tails, the questionnaire continued sensibly: "If the answer to this question...
...spite of the conflict with the U.S.S.R., Tito is not trying to shut out news of Cominform countries, Mather stated. The professor said he saw Cominform newspapers on open sale in Belgrade and other large cities, "in spite of the fact that they are filled with invectiyes against Tito and bitter criticism of Yugoslav policies...
Four days later the Boston papers reported that Vatican authorities said Archbishop Cushing was within his rights in "silencing" Father Feeney and described the disciplinary action as valid. These same authorities described the conflict as a purely local one to be decided by local authorities (the Archbishop). In case of an appeal the matter could be decided by a congregation of the Holy Sec. But the Archbishop had already spoken, and so Father Feeney appealed the decision...
Sure Ground. It was a lull in the political East-West conflict which had focused so much attention on the West's economic troubles, like sharp reefs exposed in an ebb tide. Yet nobody thought it safe to assume that Moscow would make no more bids for power in Europe. With Bevin, Schuman and Acheson in Washington, the representatives of nine other Atlantic Pact nations* joined them to blueprint Western defense machinery. In this field, the statesmen were on sure ground; a scheduled three-hour meeting lasted only one hour...
...student group, the National Union of Students of Vietnam, is currently involved in a war against the French in the present conflict in French Indo-China. "The resistance and the work it requires takes all our time," the Vietnam student states...