Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from pushing the Israeli-Arab conflict into the background, the Suez crisis, with its temper-shortening tensions and attention-diverting demands, was likely to provoke more probing and more shooting in the days to come...
Under the compromise proposed by the Air Coordinating Committee, the VOR stations will continue indefinitely to tell aircraft their direction. They will gradually stop, however, telling aircraft their distance. In many cases this service will conflict electronically with TACAN and so must be eliminated. Unless the Government foots the bill, civil-aircraft operators will eventually have to buy costly new electronics. Cost of a full VORTAC system...
Gabrielle, or Sister Luke, as she was known in religion, resolved her inner conflict not by denying her faith but by requesting and receiving a papal release from her vows in 1944. As told by Author Kathryn Hulme, herself a Roman Catholic convert, Sister Luke's ordeal has the characterization, pace and dramatic intensity of a good novel. A Book-of-the-Month Club choice to be published next week, The Nun's Story (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $4) looks into a world most readers could scarcely enter in any other...
...Niemoeller opened the Kirchentag with a sermon that steered clear of secular applications. But in a Germany that is bifurcated geographically, politically and ideologically, the word reconciliation had overtones. One was "reunification"; another the question of conciliation between the Christians in East Germany and the Communist state; another the conflict, in the Evangelical Church itself, between the pro-West faction and neutralists...
...including delegates from Communist China, Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Poland, the council's Dutch General Secretary W. A. Visser 't Hooft said: "The World Council lives its own life in complete independence from any particular political system or economic system or ideology." To people who believe that the conflict between Communism and Christianity is not merely political, economic or ideological, but a crucial matter of faith, some of the proceedings in Hungary must have sounded puzzling and perhaps alarming...