Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last 20 years, Pisar says, he has lived by the ancient proverb that. "The ink of the scholar teaches more than the blood of a martyr." Today, however, Pisar is no longer so sure. Pointing to the nuclear arms race and the Middle East conflict, the plight of the Third World's hungry millions, and rising inflation and unemployment world wide, Pisar sees shadows of the past, warnings of future terrors that could come...
...bishops' peace offensive began with a pastoral letter in 1976. It declared that modern conflict "is so savage that one must ask whether war as it is actually waged today can be morally justified." The bishops said that no Christians can "rightfully carry out orders or policies requiring direct force against noncombatants." Then came this key statement: "As possessors of a vast nuclear arsenal, we must also be aware that not only is it wrong to attack civilian populations but it is also wrong to threaten to attack them as part of a strategy of deterrence." The bishops were...
Beyond all the square rings and vicious circles, beneath every blob of nose and billow of scar tissue, there is a common majesty, a simple valor-so basic, so appealing, so appalling. Probably every game or type of conflict has it, but the others are not stripped to the waist or the bone. "Kill the quarterback" is mostly a figure of speech. Randall ("Tex") Cobb, a plain-speaking heavyweight, says, "If you screw up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass, darling...
...conflict came down to the last event, the 400-yard freestyle relay, which B.U. took in 3:38:91. The Crimson "A" squad finished...
...rhetoric, its attempt to consolidate anti-Soviet alliances and its program of across-the-board rearmament have all been intended to impress on the Soviets that they have a choice. They can moderate their conduct-which, by implication, means choosing more moderate rulers-and thereby earn a respite from conflict abroad that may be their last chance to tend to their home front. Or, if the succession struggle is resolved in favor of ideologues and expansionists, they can continue pursuing an aggressive course and thereby risk an almost inevitable, potentially cataclysmic confrontation with the U.S. On top of that...