Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...riots of the past couple of weeks (TIME, June 28) may serve to good purpose in throwing a spotlight . . . upon the menacing growth of racial consciousness in America. Undoubtedly many have listened in recent months to a strangely swelling chorus of ominous predictions having to do with prospective internal conflict after the world war is settled. One hears of "real trouble coming up"; of "somebody" (unidentified) who is "going after" this or that "minority group...
Cause without Cure. At the bottom of this bitter dogfight were three basic factors: 1) Jesse Jones's great urge to hold on to his vast powers, 2) the never-settled, equivocal division of authority between Jones and Wallace, 3) the inevitable conflict over business method between banker-minded Jesse Jones and war-worried Henry Wallace...
...ashamed of the word: "I think the expression, British Commonwealth and Empire, may well be found the most convenient means to describe this unique association of races which was built up partly by conquest, largely by consent. . . . The universal ardor of our colonial empire to join in this awful conflict . . . is the first answer that I would make to those ignorant, envious voices who call into question the greatness of the work we are doing throughout the world and which we shall continue...
...long conflict between Franklin Roosevelt and the U.S. press, the President added a new chapter last week. This time he accused the press of impeding the war effort and of encouraging the current confusion and bad temper among agencies and high officials of his own administration...
...word of advice, sirs: BEWARE! The very sanctity of your singleness is being apprehended. For as sure as Rand follows Remington, your chances of coming through this Cambridge conflict maritally unscathed are diminishing...