Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris Conference and every other political event since the war's end. As its meaning began to sink in last week the West could take heart because it had called a brilliant Russian bluff; at the same time West and East could take solemn notice that the conflict between them had reached a point where they were openly competing for the favor of the Germans...
Chicago Round Table (Sun. 1:30 p.m., NBC). "The Chinese Civil War." Speakers: Harley F. MacNair, educator-author (The Real Conflict between China and Japan); Gunther Stein, foreign correspondent-author (The Challenge of Red China...
...California, the man who plays Joe Palooka in the movies-Joe Kirkwood Junior!" Elsewhere on the course, a "Masked Marvel," a man in kilts and Joe Louis were going their rounds. This was Chicago Promoter George S. May's idea of a golf tournament. It was in violent conflict with most golfers' ideas, yet the top pros, from Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan on down were all there. The Tam O'Shanter offered prizes totaling $50,875, golfdom's bonanza of the year...
Contest, if not conflict, is part of man's unresting nature; the urge that needs a "moral equivalent for war" finds outlets other than politics, champions other than Molotov and Byrnes. This month some of the heroes symbolizing that urge weighed in at 1,500 Ibs., while some weighed 20 oz. They held the attention of thousands weary of war but not of competition...
This treasonable grouch caused poor Farmer Brocke to be knocked, not patted, on the head by the royal executioner. But his view was shared by thousands of Englishmen-affected equally by medieval superstition and horror over Henry's conflict with the Pope. Crowds screamed maniacally when the new Queen appeared in public. The very heavens were said to be outraged by the royal sacrilege; the night sky was rent by speeding, flaming symbols of doom, and tongues of lightning came down to earth to meet the blaze of the fires in which the Catholic martyrs were consumed...