Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordered its ambassadors and proconsular in Washington, London, Paris and East Germany to come home to Moscow for a policy conference. And in the Far East, an opportunity to press Russia's Chinese allies had been frittered away in truce negotiations that led to the dangerous and demoralizing conflict between the U.S. and Syngman Rhee-a conflict which Senator Knowland this week blamed on the failure of both the Truman and Eisenhower administrations to consult with Rhee...
...York's old (77) Dan Reed, chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, Martin reported, in characteristic good humor: "We were only one word apart-he said 'no' and I said 'yes.' " Last week the one-word distinction caught House Republicans in a party-rending conflict between Dan Reed's belief in precedent and principle and Joe Martin's convictions on loyalty to the Administration...
...Through it all, Washington's burdens grew. Congressmen hotly accused him of attempting to saddle the country with a military tyranny worse than that of England. It was 18 months before he was authorized to recruit a stable Continental line pledged to serve for the duration of the conflict. The Continental Army never had more than 16,782 regulars, and never had more than a few hundred pieces of artillery, but 2,000 private American vessels, armed with 18,000 guns and manned by 70,000 men, harassed English shipping in the hope of quick fortunes. Money...
...complete severance with the NCAA within 12 months, Yale and Princeton were careful to make it clear that they were not at this time considering making any such break. However, O'Hearn made it clear that Yale would not consider itself bound by NCAA policy in the event of conflict with Yale policy. "Yale will not follow anyone else's policy," he asserted...
Daredevils they were, and their countries vowed never to forget them. For four years of World War I, they got 100 m.p.h. out of tin-Lizzie aircraft that bucked like hiccuping buzzards, flying by the seat of their pants, tossing bombs like baseball pitches, extending the realm of human conflict to the third and last element...