Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department looked unhappy. Secretary Hull was not quoted. Reporters who knew the Department's hostility to such alignments in Europe roared with laughter when a spokesman intoned: "It [the Treaty] is not to be understood to be in conflict with the general framework of worldwide security...
...Though its comic edge is keen, Sally's and Bill's unconventional housekeeping is rich in bedspread and double-boiler touches that evoke delighted recognitions. And though lightly handled, Sally and Bill are pretty convincing people. Much of the comedy comes out of the piquant conflict of their own temperaments-out of Sally's young need to be dramatic and Bill's grown-up insistence on being downright. Their easy, sprightly, sometimes funny talk stays in character, is never primed with gags...
Startling Dearth. In startling contrast to the spate of military books was the dearth of competent political books that could provide U.S. readers of 1943 with some clue to the background of conflict from which they might appraise the turbulent changes of the year. The geopoliticians were busy. Andreas Dorpalen's The World of General Haushofer ($3.50) and Derwent Whittlesey's German Strategy of World Conquest ($2.50) examined the basic ideas which German Geopolitician Haushofer has contributed to Nazi grand strategy. Still a strong seller was Democratic Ideals and Reality ($2.50), by aging British Geopolitician Sir Halford Mackinder...
Once Beebe came upon a noted gastronome glaring with horror at a row of orchids on his table. "Throw wide the windows!" cried the gourmet. "Air the rooms! Is the bouquet of my wines to have to conflict with these stinking flowers...
Genius on the Run. As long as the English language lives, its users will be reminded that Winston Churchill said: "... I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. . . . Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. . . . We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. ... I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation...