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Word: conflict (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to refocusing the basic issue in the Army's case against McCarthy (see above), last week's testimony brought out an even more important conflict: McCarthy v. the U.S. Constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Bogus Letter | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...possibility." The French took somewhat the same attitude, though they still talked of an air strike. As Laniel explained last week: "All solutions which might help a local situation, that of Dienbienphu, were studied, [but] we refused before the Geneva Conference to accept solutions which might risk a generalized conflict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: Bluff or Backdown? | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

Vittorio De Sica, in his first English language film, has tried to convert a simple emotional conflict into another of his Italian art masterpieces, and he has failed. He has failed because his picture did not include anything more substantial than a few lines of sentimental dialogue and a series of tormented expressions...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Indiscretion of an American Wife | 5/12/1954 | See Source »

...Sica's use of the everyday drama of a railroad station--a pregnant woman and a traveling class from a deaf and dumb school--occasionally brightens the submerged conflict. It is a losing cause, however, for he has stretched one poignant incident past the breaking point into a full-length feature...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Indiscretion of an American Wife | 5/12/1954 | See Source »

...second weakness lies in the combi nation of Communism, nature and man in China. In a ferocious gamble, the three have been brought into deliberate conflict. Mao & Co. are men in a hurry, ambitious to "build a mighty industry like Russia's" (said Mao in 1953) faster than Russia did it, by imitating the Russian pattern and, if possible, avoiding Russia's mistakes. The first Five-Year Plan is Chinese Communism's big push. In ,its first year the successes that Communist propagandists claim are due chiefly to reaching top capacity in factories already built by their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Great Dissembler | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

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