Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Southeast Asia's newest independent country is politically and economically its healthiest. Conservatively governed Malaya has squelched its Communist guerrillas; surviving Communists are now taking Abdul Rahman's amnesty offer in heartening numbers. The fact that 40% of the population is Chinese is a potential source of conflict, but both sides are currently cooperating eagerly to consolidate the new state. Tin and rubber keep Malaya in dollars...
...Public reports of funds paid to each other by employers and union officers, embracing the no man's land of conflict-of-interest dealings...
...take a worm's-eye view of the world conflict and cut foreign aid, hamstring reciprocal trade and emasculate our information program, I can tell you that the billions we spend for missiles and submarines and aircraft will be going right down a rathole. And mark my words, if the Communists gain control of the people and resources of the uncommitted nations of the world, they will hold the whip hand...
...sake, take over. And that is the clue to what George Balanchine has done by way of choreography. Unlike his previous "neoclassic" collaborations with Stravinsky (Apollo, Orpheus), this work is abstract dance: there are no costumes or scenery and the Greek title, Agon (contest), does not denote a conflict of plot but simply a sort of dancers' free...
...Conflict. When the Government in "1941 set aside 2,000,000 marshy acres of the Kenai Peninsula as a preserve for moose and other animals, no one cared because the land had no commercial value. But after Richfield's discovery, oilmen quickly filed for leases on nearly 12 million acres in and around Kenai, and close, to 5,000,000 acres farther north...