Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Recognize that the U.S. is already at war with Communist China, but avoid open conflict with China. Give Chiang Kai-shek the arms and other help he needs to carry the fight to the Chinese Reds on the mainland...
Oldtime Heavyweight Champion James J. Jeffries slapped a $150,000 slander suit against two small-time promoters for advertising a bingo-type game called "Conflict" played in "Jeffries' Barn" on his Burbank, Calif, ranch. Such goings-on, 75-year-old Jim Jeffries charged, would hurt his "good name...
...know, the present trays were made when the metal shortage got rough during the war, by grinding up salvage GI socks and underwear turned in by the heroes of the late conflict, embedding these in a plastic matrix and coating the whole with a thin coating of superior smooth plastic in much the same fashion as in the old Columbia victrola records. Now I'm not squeamish, and I have great faith in the miracles of modern science, so I'm not disturbed by the fundamental arrangement. (I am told by a friend from Adams House that Irene was utterly...
...portrait seems to owe less to the Supreme Court's Holmes than to Life with Father's Clarence Day. Understandably, the only real conflict in Holmes's later years, i.e., the clash of legal ideas, hardly lends itself to dramatization. But Lavery skimps even on a primer-level presentation of his subject's life work. Having emptied the character of all but the vaguest sense of purpose, to say nothing of greatness, he fills it largely with a butter-soft stuffing of homely anecdotes...
College football tends to breed a nasty atmosphere of suspicion. Athletic scholarships and competitive recruiting exist; the colleges know this and so do their alumni. But the conflict between the standards people would like to see applied to athletics and actual standards makes for a narrowing of the eyes and a quick search between the lines when a school changes its athletic or admissions policy. There were many people squinting between the lines at the College during the vacation...