Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With everyone concerned about the conflict the advent of the WAVES has raised between the rules of military courtesy and the proprieties of gentlemanly respect for ladies, the following simple formula has been devised as an official solution and approved by cognizant officers of the Bureau...
Fact 1. Synthetic-rubber plants, and the refineries which make high-octane gasoline for the Army's airplanes, both use heat and pressure processes which require boilers, hundreds of valves, condensers, pumps, gauges, instruments. Thus they conflict with each other-and with the Navy's escort vessel program, which requires much the same type of "component part...
...this delicate phase of the conflict," said Il Duce, "I, Mussolini, am assuming the entire burden of the conduct of political and military operations...
...fighting along the Yangtze was not between the Chinese and the Japs. There was a bitter, burning conflict there among Americans. The contestants were three American generals. By last week the sparks had flown as far as Washington...
Part of the trouble was the traditional conflict between airman and ground officer: Brigadier General Claire Lee Chennault, brilliant, unorthodox genius of the world's smallest fighting air force, had fallen out with his commander, Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell Jr., homely infantryman hero of the 1942 retreat from Burma...