Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubtful validity, his verbal power cannot be overlooked. Mr. Royce was raised on an apple farm, but ran away from home seven years ago. Since then he has served two years in the army and five years as an undergraduate at Harvard. He served in Korea during the recent conflict, but wasn't much use. His grandfather was a philosopher. His father...
Four University officers differed sharply on the issue of increased enrollment last night, with the main conflict coming over the question of expansion in graduate or undergraduate areas...
...judicial procedures for automobile litigation, which composes up to 90 percent of the calendar backlog. One of the most successful of these methods is the pre-trial conference between judge and lawyers. Here the issues are informally exposed, and the judge can familiarize himself with the case. If the conflict cannot be settled out of court, the trial, at least, can then proceed without routine delays...
...South last week blew a chill and ominous wind, a wind that carried with it the echoes of half-forgotten battles and the seeds of conflict yet to come. In Montgomery, Ala., where the Confederacy was born, obdurate Negroes persisted in their 3½-month-old boycott of a bus company that apparently was prepared to go bankrupt rather than abandon Jim Crow. In Sumner, Miss., an all-white jury decided that a white cotton-gin operator was not guilty of murder when he fired two charges of buckshot and one of squirrel shot into the body of a Negro...
...political strain created by this basic moral and social conflict is felt most keenly in the Democratic Party. In New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois and other Northern states, at least 70% of the Negro vote in recent years has been Democratic and has been necessary for Democratic victory. Northern Democrats cannot abandon their pro-civil rights position, nor do their leaders wish...