Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today, a still hostile community of nations continues to dwell in nervous tension. Confused reports from press and radio have tended to reduce the meeting of the Security Council to little more than a conflict of personalities. Gromyko frowns and all men stiffen in apprehension. His mouth twitches in the semblance of a smile, and we breathe a sigh of relief. The nation, torn by the violent pulsations of hope and despondency, shows signs of drastic deviations from its former idealism...
...surveys are available, but, generally, war seems to have brought about a change in the outlook of many students, as evidenced in their choice of studies. Some who were practical-minded have grown idealistic; some of the idealists have become practical. A third group apparently took the stresses of conflict in stride, emerging matured but essentially unchanged...
Other problems add to the dynamics of the College scene: short-range problems of readjustment and revitalization, long-range one of progress along the path of liberal education. A student body awake to the conflict of forces, jealous of the abandonment of the old, and wary of embracing the new will not find education neglected in the course of the fight--the fight is education...
...next day Moscow Pundit Vassily Voronin warned that Russia was "surrounded by capitalist countries and reactionary forces, and their desire to redivide the world may again produce armed conflict. . . ." China announced happily that Russia had sent a note promising to evacuate Manchuria by May 1. Canada revealed that members of the Soviet spy ring not only got money from Moscow but even got instructions not to take cabs all the way to their secret meeting places...
...said, "she took with her my raison d'être" Actually, Haushofer had found a new and brilliant disciple. Russia has long been interested in geopolitics, has its own version of a geopolitical institute (Moscow's Institute for World Economy and Politics), which concerns itself with the conflict between the U.S. and the World Island toward the shores of which Russia presses...