Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unofficial but authoritative Army & Navy Journal, freshly studying this probability last week, decided it did not like the idea, and even suggested that the move might be against the U.S. interest. The Journal hinted cryptically: "General Marshall, of course, has come into conflict with powerful interests which would like to eliminate him from the Washington picture...
After nearly a month of verbal conflict over the food situation in the civilian Houses, the Student Council has succeeded in improving the menus of the dining halls and will issue a statement on its findings following their meeting tonight...
...British West Africa, a village chief was recently giving shelter to two natives wanted on criminal charges. Around his village, the chief built a "Maginot Line" of thornbush to keep out the authorities who wished to arrest the wanted men. For the first time in the history of human conflict the mechanical bulldozer-a contraption which is used to level bumpy ground-was to go into battle with fighter cover...
...wants no such government making and enforcing laws that conflict with and supersede his sacred U.S. Constitution...
...reserve, made of his R.A.F. colleagues not only willing allies but firm friends. British skepticism of U.S. daylight-bombing theories was overcome. Day or night bombing long ago ceased to be an issue between the U.S. and British air leaders-in Eaker's own words: "There is no conflict between day bombing and night bombing, each being part of a completed pattern and supplementing the whole...