Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pusan, where the U.S. put division after division ashore to save Korea in 1950, Korean mobs stormed U.S. barracks. Into Kunsan air base, where U.S. warplanes took off to bomb South Korea's invaders, Koreans were hurling bombs of their own. It was a strange and tragic conflict, for the Americans were fighting to protect their enemies: the Communist Poles and Czechs of the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission...
...though Syngman Rhee's bluff had been called, he had not been silenced. "Our very good friend, President Eisenhower," he said, "believes that he has found another kind of peace-peace of mutual forbearance, in which each nation pursues its own aims in every way short of armed conflict." Such a peace, prophesied Rhee, will lead to disaster because 1) "it gives the Communists the chance ... to fix their grip permanently on conquered areas," and 2) "the Communists themselves will not abide...
...Documents indicating that to avoid the conflict of interests involved in a governor's engaging directly in business, Yale carried on a healthy diamond trade in Madras through an agent named Mrs. Catherine Nicks...
...anti-business talk came from Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver, who not only fought a desperate battle to keep private power from building in federal-power areas, but accused the Justice Department of writing a "gigantic brief for nonenforcement of the anti-trust laws." Kefauver repeatedly railed against "conflict of interest," thus helped the Democratic campaign to require businessmen serving without compensation in the Government to list in the Federal Register the names of all corporations or partnerships in which they own shares...
...truth was that Navigator Ripault had never cared about the war. He did not know how. He was one of those lonely thinkers, the introverts who went through the motions but never really took part in the conflict. Novelist Jules Roy, a onetime infantryman in the French army and World War II R.A.F. bomber pilot, writes about a navigator who is a distant, haunted figure, indistinguishable from all uniformed youthful intellectuals. His problems typify the problems of every individual lost in the impersonal service: companions suddenly turned dull and insensible, sudden fear that makes him weasel out of a flight...