Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Great Britain's factories were threatened last week with shutdowns by the greatest coal strike since the general walkout of 1926. More than a tenth, possibly a seventh, of 710,000 miners were out. Their tempers were short, their attitude adamant, their position clear. They were in open conflict with Winston Churchill's Government...
Like a score of similar Southern novels, the book is a story of racial conflict in a small Southern town (called Maxwell, Ga.), in which the dramatic action is the love affair of a white man and a Negro girl, the climax is his murder by her brother, and the end is a lynching. The same story has been told & retold, expertly or awkwardly, with Freudian variations (as in the novels of T. S. Stribling), with Marxian overtones (as in proletarian novels). The main theme has been repeated in fiction almost as frequently as the lynchings that inspired it have...
...lecture on the Far Eastern conflict will be given in Lowell House Junior Common Room Tuesday at 7:30 o'clock by Sherwood Eddy, author and lecturer. The talk, which will consider the positions of Japan, China, and Russia, is sponsored by the Harvard Square Council of Student Religious Groups...
...George VI ... Emperor. . . ." therefore embodies a hope and a prospect which is all-important to Britons, important to all the world. War has at once tightened and loosened the bonds of Empire. Sovereign, national aims conflict in Canada with a never-dying tie to Britain. Aspirations both regional and national stir New Zealand and Australia. South Africa's great Prime Minister, Field Marshal and Elder Statesman Jan Christiaan Smuts, feels grave responsibility both for Imperial Britain and for the independent integrity of his own country. India, the jewel of Empire, strains away from Empire, yet gives (or sells...
During two months of conflict in the malaria-ridden New Britain jungles, when the enemy tried frantically to push Mac-Arthur's men back into the sea, 7,000 Japs had been slain. U.S. casualties were not revealed...