Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hills. For the first time in the two-year conflict, Castro moved his GHQ out of the Oriente mountain fastness to a site near the town of Baire, 42 miles from Bayamo. Moving through the Oriente valleys, rebel columns filtered into half a dozen weakly garrisoned small towns, captured Caimanera (pop. 4,000), just across the bay from the U.S. Guantanamo naval base. In answer, the Cuban high command sent two frigates to shell Caimanera, planes to bomb the rebels wherever they showed themselves. Batista committed few troops. Whenever possible, the beleaguered garrisons pulled back; a few surrendered...
...that atomic Moby Dick, the nuclear submarine Nautilus, charged 1,830 miles under the North Pole and its ice pack last summer on its historic ocean-to-ocean passage, it was almost like a brilliantly calculated triumph of matter over matter. Perhaps the most striking drama was not the conflict of man v. the elements, which characterized the 19th century, but the contrast between that traditional conflict and the mid-20th century ease with which the sonar-watching, fathometer-reading, Coke-drinking crew of the Nautilus defied the elements. In Nautilus 90 North (the message Nautilus radioed to indicate...
...three characteristic phases of a cold-war limited conflict, the battle of Quemoy was now joined...
...comments on the right-to-work laws: every man's right to work and earn his living in the country in which he has residence is a fundamental liberty. It is a right as fundamental as trial by jury or freedom of religion. Today there is no conflict between management and labor. Management has simply thrown in the sponge and adopted the motto: "If you can't beat them, join them." The closed shop smacks of ostracism if not outright violence. No skilled artisan wishes to become a mere tool, the slave of the type...
...first glance this view of the college conflicts with our half-conscious image of higher learning, with our portrait of the academic world in contrast and conflict with the materialistic marketplace. Yet if we look carefully we will see that the university is actually an extended preparation for the marketplace, and that the scholar is in fact the last rugged individualist. Today's professor inherits from the merchant prince and the captain of industry, not from the bespectacled dreamer of myth and joke...