Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...considerable interest. It is worth noting, primarily, that no major studio took on this documentary of the Mexican village of Santiago and its fight against typhoid fever. Squalid ignorance is not the sort of thing Hollywood can treat sympathetically, as a rule, but a small outfit has presented the conflict between the old and new in a manner that rivals the job S. M. Eisenstein, the Russian director, did in the same area in 1933 with his "Time...
...Spain faces the dangerous possibility of a new fratricidal conflict as well as world isolation. . . . The only instrument capable of avoiding both threats and bring ing about a reconciliation of all Spaniards . . . is Spain's traditional monarchy...
...Your article recognizes the possibility of conflict between those who think that human beings are able to work out their destinies within a free society, and those who believe that rigid subservience to power is the only solution...
...plain fact was that, as the world entered the last half of the sixth year of war, there was simply not enough food to go around. Since the U.S. is the greatest food producer in the world, the big troubles piled up in Washington. Last week the flame of conflict among three Government groups burst from the pile...
Longer Reach. Seldom mentioned but not forgotten was that the greatest political bargaining weapon in U.S. and British hands was Russia's need for credits. Areas of conflict between the Western Powers and the U.S.S.R. lie much nearer to the latter's predominant land power. Credits may extend the bargaining reach of the U.S. and Britain at the peace settlement...