Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fulfilled his duty to the University last January. The Corporation had objected to his use of the Fifth Amendment about his Communist activities here, and in January he abandoned the Amendment. But in fulfilling his duty as a professor, he brought into the open for the first time the conflict between his duty as a citizen and his duty as an individual with a conscience. If he had continued to shelter himself behind the Fifth Amendment, the latter issue would never have come before the courts...
...Germans are convinced that an attempt by Germany alone and apart from the other free nations to solve the problem of German reunification would end with the complete loss of freedom for all Germany. I believe that the only concrete possibility of bringing about the relaxation of the conflict in Europe, and thus of achieving German reunification, lies in an attempt by the Western European Union and the Atlantic Community, acting jointly, to seek a solution of the pending problems with the Soviet Union...
McCarthy are now even, we think, in an unfortunate conflict. The President has pulled the prize boner of going out of his way to congratulate Sen. Arthur V. Watkins for the hatchet job Watkins' committee did on McCarthy. Sen. Mc Carthy in turn has pulled the boner of questioning, by inference, the President's enmity to Communism. Now that these two eminent fighting cocks have given each other their lumps in public, how about a reconciliation, followed by a joint and sustained effort to unify their party? Neither Eisenhower nor McCarthy may believe this in the heat...
Said the court: "No [interstate carrier's] certificate is to be revoked, suspended or changed until after a hearing and a finding [by the Interstate Commerce Commission]. Such a state suspension of interstate transportation . . . would conflict with the Federal Motor Carrier Act which is the supreme law of the land ..." The only thing a state may do, said the court, is appeal...
Instead of viewing revision as it might affect U.S. interests, Cousins attacked the concept of a "fully sovereign state." "There is a natural conflict between national interests and human interests," he warned...