Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems that the sword of righteousness so handily wielded by Mr. Truman at the outset of the Korean conflict has become an umbrella...
Your letter expressed the fear that a world conflict might "destroy the entire body of the world." We in China do not share this fear. All the people I have spoken to about the atom bomb, from illiterate peasants to college professors, have no fear of the bomb. I have thus far seen no hysteria to compare with that of the U. S. just before I left. It is true that we have no intentions or wishes to to fight a world war. It would set our industrial output (now exceeding pre-Japanese war China) many years back. It would...
...conflict between a Law School final and the Selective Service deferment examination has been discovered and is now under consideration, officials of the Law School's Dean's Office said yesterday...
...time conflict would develope on June 16, when a first-year course in Agency is scheduled to take place along with the second deferment test. Students have no choice of dates in the draft test...
Truman's friends say that by firing MacArthur he settled a dispute over civilian v. military supremacy. The nation's Founding Fathers were rightly concerned over the danger of such a conflict. As it turned out, this issue has rarely arisen in the U.S. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The most serious instance of military insubordination to governmental authority was General Andrew Jackson's seizure of Florida from the Spaniards. Only a Californian would view this act of Harry Truman's hero as a catastrophe...