Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conflict of Interests. Triumphantly Cushing returned to the U.S., ran headlong into a stern warning from the I.O.C.'s crusty chairman, Avery Brundage: "Cushing, you're going to set back the Olympic movement 25 years." For a time, it appeared that Brundage had something. Cushing could count on the piddling $1,000,000 voted by the state, but even in his most poor-mouth moment, he never envisioned that the games could be staged for less than...
Gulped Tranquilizer. Next day, obviously in deep inner conflict, Hlasko declared: "I will be here a month or so, and then I will go back to Poland. I won't write any more. I'll get a job." Gulping a tranquilizer, he went on: "A writer without his country is nothing. Whatever the consequences, I'm going back. Good or bad, it's my country. I don't know from experience what will happen to me. When it happens, then I will have the experience...
...Such a law, still on the books in Tennessee, brought the late great trial lawyer Clarence Darrow and Fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan into conflict in 1925's famed "Monkey Trial." Science Teacher John Thomas Scopes was found guilty, assessed a $100 fine...
...Indian hill station, where his American father was a missionary; as a result, he speaks with the tongues of both Indians and Americans. Elephant Hill's interest and readability come partly from White's clear, simple style and partly from his understanding of just what the conflict means in the minds and hearts of the antagonists...
Whichever course is decided upon, there will probably be regrets and misunderstandings, as in any issue where education feels its political duties and its instincts towards the individual in conflict. But unless the closed schools reopen shortly, a choice may be unavoidable...