Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coordination which have in the past enabled the United States to rise to unpredictable heights have been the product of passions and emotions, such as those produced during the war. The futility of expecting such singleness of purpose to carry over into peacetime living is illustrated by the present conflict over price controls. The majority of the people know that the continuance of controls would be best for the economy as a whole, yet each group finds excuses for allowing itself to be exempt from controls. The philosophy of Adam Smith's invisible hand which turned self-interest into...
...Tories that their best hope for a return to power was not to commit themselves to a program but to widen the party's field "and bring in all who want free progress." "Like the parson who was against sin." he said, "I am against Socialism. . . . The great conflict to come will be fundamentally a conflict between God and the anti-Christ." His audiences applauded the generalities, but were not satisfied. "It's not good enough," said one young lady listener. "We want something more concrete...
...British charged that the Jewish Agency and Haganah, as well as the extremist gangs, were responsible for violence and disorder in Palestine. In other words, the British were now in open and direct conflict with the main Zionist movement...
...Costa Rica, inflation and corruption had rumpled traditional democracy. Conflict with the coffee barons over social legislation had fanned the opposition. Result: just enough revolutionary gunplay (one dead, two wounded) to keep the troops in trim. If the 50,000-odd Nicaraguans now living in Costa Rica had joined last week's revolt, it would not have been comic opera...
...Great and serious papers are thrashing their readers with false information on Russia; they stir up every conflict, trying to convince the people that war between our two countries is possible. I want to shout: No, this war is impossible! . . . Nothing separates us but the curtain of fog drawn by the slanderers...