Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best, however carefully and sympathetically planned, price control would be in conflict with the traditional U.S. system. And many a businessman considers Chester Bowles far from sympathetic-possibly because, in his fight for the consumer's pocketbook, he has become the darling not only of the nation's housewives but also of its noisiest leftists, who like to think of price control as a step toward planned economy...
Bevin meant both statements. Yet they could be in apparent conflict if the Russians chose to press upon the internally weakened Empire. As Bevin spoke, the Empire was creaking in a high wind-and its troubles had a direct connection with Russian pressures. Prime Minister Clement Attlee told Parliament that "leftwing elements and Communists" had fanned the Bombay mutiny. Whether they had or not, Russia's championship of dependent peoples at UNO had obviously aggravated widespread colonial unrest...
Game of Darts. UNO had shown the Russians that the Security Council could not be used for petty tactical maneuvers. It had not, of course, really reconciled the basic forces in conflict between Great Britain and Russia; the forces were irreconcilable. It was UNO's job to deflect and cushion such forces, prevent them from colliding and exploding into World War III. The London meeting made it plain that the nations, pressed from below by war-sick peoples, had accepted UNO as the place of settlement-at least for the present...
Resurgence of Principle. Had the conflict been merely that of two empires, the methods of power politics might have sufficed, even though Britain was no longer the world's greatest power. But a conflict of principle called for a forum above the level of "absolute sovereignty." To him, that forum...
Beatice Pearson, ingenue of "The Mermaids Singing," cleverly depicts the childlike charm and shallowness of Consuela, which partially cause the conflict in "He Who Gets Slapped" and end in her death as well as that of "Funny...