Word: conflict
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Brovkin confirmed his arrest and said that he has a scheduled court appearance, but denied that he initiated the conflict...
Priscilla J. McMillan, treasurer and a founding member of the Fund, remembers the conflict as a galvanizing force for local residents who until that time had been divided into sectional neighborhood associations...
Jiang has been sending warmer signals to the White House for several months and has been answered in kind, but none of the issues that breed conflict--human-rights abuse, nuclear proliferation, trade barriers, Hong Kong, Taiwan--have been settled. American intelligence agencies view the future darkly and has advised the White House that Jiang's coalition may be only a brief transition before a stronger leader takes power. Says an American intelligence official: "This is a leadership that exhibits a good mixture of hubris and insecurity...
...Deng met and married his third wife, Zhuo Lin. While Mao's romantic life was tumultuous, Deng and Zhuo's marriage was beyond scandal and produced a family of three daughters and two sons. But the civil war, which was soon subsumed into the bloody conflict with invading Japanese forces, provided little time for family and certainly no time for home. In fact, Deng was too busy proving his worth to Mao to return to Paifangcun in 1940, when his father was killed and beheaded by unknown attackers. After Japan's defeat in 1945, Deng was instrumental in driving...
...moviemakers therefore create a character named Mann (Ving Rhames), who drifts into town on horseback just as the tragedy is beginning to unfold. In essence, he's the mysterious stranger of a thousand westerns, eager to avoid conflict but miraculously adept at the killing arts when he is finally obliged to employ them. Ultimately he and John Wright (Jon Voight), the white storekeeper in the town and a reality-based character, make common, inspiring cause to rescue Rosewood's surviving women and children from the swamp where they have taken refuge from the blood-crazed posse searching for them. There...