Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tensions of military conflict with Russia seem to have abated in these recent months. I believe we can have at least a gleam of hope. Moscow has made many declarations of "peaceful coexistence." I would rather they had spoken of "peaceful cooperation." It may be that they want more time to consolidate their gains. It may be that internal forces are working to restrain them from within. Some revolutions have the bad habit of devouring their young. At least their successors are less violent...
...Blondell were all rushed to bed suffering variously from overwork, strep throats and virus infections. CBS Newsman Ed Murrow, scheduled to appear as host on NBC's Producers' Showcase in honor of the Overseas Press Club, announced that he couldn't make it because of "contractual conflict," a phrase that the industry read to mean CBS displeasure...
...novels-a bargain at less than a dime each-meet not on the bestseller list, but on literature's highest common denominator. Their authors worked the same line of rugged country defined by Faulkner as "the human heart in conflict with itself ... the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed-love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice...
...addition, the Red Cross has taken students' schedules into account more carefully, and has attempted to arrange appointments that do not conflict with classes...
...reconcile it with athletic schedules that were arranged several years ago. Since Yale's midyear exam period will now come two weeks before those of other colleges, it was necessary to reschedule all contests that would have been played in early January, in addition to those which would conflict with the Elis' new spring vacation