Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First off, and of real interest to the Junior Battalion is the fact that the conflict between our last final and the senior class graduation has been decided in favor of the case system. As a result, our predecessors must receive their final ovation without our presence. As will be officially announced this week, we are off after a formation in traveling uniform at 1155, 23 May; with leave expiring 1945, 4 June...
Therefore, we must look to the other major party for such leadership. Yet now the Republicans of Wisconsin turn down the only man in their party who fully recognizes the character of this conflict and the temper of the people regarding it and has the courage to speak his mind on it, for a fence-straddling pussyfooter, of whom not only do they know not his position on the world structure, but also his position on major postwar national issues...
...columns of its Sunday Magazine loosed a steaming storm of generalities that boiled down to two favorite Wallace targets: 1) international trade cartels; 2) business monopolies. The demagogues and stooges who "poison the channels of public information," wrote Mr. Wallace, are mere fronts for those who "in case of conflict put money and power ahead of human beings." By that definition he judged there are "undoubtedly several million" U.S. Fascists and "there are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful...
...sitting next him at a ball game is a homicidal maniac. The story is strenuously pasted together for laughs, but some of its comic assault & battery hits the funnybone, while Red Skelton, his idiotic beard and imbecilic lack of interest in the game he is supposed to pitch, sometimes conflict humorously with the maniacal seriousness of Ebbets Field baseball...
Without doubt an understanding with Russia was reached before the Balkan raids were undertaken, lest U.S. and Russian planes conflict in bombing targets. But to be fully effective the Balkan raids depended on Russian cooperation-and Russian ability to refuel and rearm the planes once they have landed behind Russian lines...