Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conflict of these two prototypes is immediate. Billy seeks the friendship of the Master-at-Arms, and Claggart seeks the destruction of Billy. Between them stands Captain Edward Vere. He, alone of the three, can recognize both good and evil, and he is also the only real human being. When Billy strikes and kills Claggart, it is Vere who must judge the offender. Billy has "broken the compromise between good and evil" and order must be restored. The Captain can only ask Billy to "pray for those who must choose...
Today we are faced with a conflict of ideologies; the world is divided into two hostile camps. America stands at the crossroads. We must come to grips with reality. We must act swiftly and decisively, we cannot afford to repeat the mistakes of the past. America cannot shirk her duty at this critical hour; there is no turning back...
...been affronted by Ike's 1945 description of them as "arrogant in victory, very polite in defeat." In his first press conference, Ike took the touchy Germans gently by the hand: "I would be entirely a liar if I should say that, at the time of the conflict, I did not bear in my heart a very definite antagonism toward Germany. I had deep antagonisms against the German Nazi regime and all the Nazis stood for." But "for my part, bygones are bygones. As of now, I would like to see the German people and all people say they...
...than once has been known to beat rowdy followers over the head with a chair. In London last week, Nehru exhibited another specimen from his bulging bundle of contradictions. In one breath, he urged the U.S. to show "sympathy and understanding" toward Communist China, at all cost avoid further conflict in Asia. In the next, he showed no sympathy or understanding whatever in India's long dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir, thereby increasing the likelihood of more bloodshed on the Indian subcontinent...
Leaders of the Arab League's seven-member nations met in Cairo last week for an emergency conference. Topic: the Arab world's position in the conflict between Communism and the West. Immediate issue: whether the Arabs would continue their U.N. policy of appeasing Red China...