Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...February Alabama's Lister Hill charged in the Senate that Wenzell's firm, the First Boston Corp., stood to make a profit from handling Dixon-Yates financing. The Kefauver committee dredged up the fact that Wenzell had asked Rowland Hughes if his Budget Bureau work presented a conflict of interest. When Hughes was summoned, he replied vaguely that he had told Wenzell to check with First Boston and Joe Dodge. Non-politician Hughes was jolted to his eyeteeth to discover that he was suddenly a major target in the all-out Democratic attack on the Dixon-Yates contract...
Topics of Conflict. By studying hypertensive patients over a period of several years at New York Hospital and introducing topics of conflict while recording their blood pressure, the authors confirmed what doctors have long believed: hypertension is closely related to underlying emotional disturbances. When Katherine's suppressed resentment finally exploded and she vented her temper on her husband, her blood pressure dropped sharply. After she divorced him and remarried, it became normal, and most of her other symptoms disappeared...
...special tragedy of Cyprus is that it involves friends, and that the suffering should be so simply avoidable. A clear statement from the British government promising the right of self-determination at a definite time in the near future to Cyprus' 520,000 people could halt overnight a conflict that daily grows more violent and more dangerous. Week by week it becomes more apparent that Britain's release of control of Cyprus to its inhabitants is not only the just solution, but the inevitable one. "One wonders," wrote the conservative London Daily Telegraph's Cyprus correspondent last...
Outward to Humanity. Marc loathed conflict of any kind. Man, being a creature in and of conflict, therefore revolted him. "Early in my life," he once explained to his wife, "I found man ugly, and animals seemed to me lovelier and purer; but even in them I discovered so much conflict [that] my representations became even more schematic and abstract." Marc's method was to bind the animals he painted into strong, elaborately rhythmical compositions. That made them seem atone with their environment, which was the state he himself longed for. He transformed their animality with flashing colors...
...conflict between Communism and freedom is the problem of our time. It overshadows all other problems. This conflict mirrors our age, its toils, its tensions, its troubles and its tasks. On the outcome of this conflict depends the future of all mankind. I pray that, on the threshold of the atomic age, we of the free world can muster the moral courage and total strength to preserve peace and promote the freedom of the men and women of every continent, color and creed...