Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...form of a recommendation to be sent to President Conant, Provost Buck, and Dean Bender. The recommendation will "urge" that the University administrators "employ every means at their disposal" to secure the elimination of certain Navy oath requirements for reserve students which the Council feels to be "in conflict with the free and unhampered exchange of ideas in a free academic society...
...baseball, to commit intentional fouls in the hope they will not be seen on the basketball court, etc. The supreme purpose of non-professional sports is the enjoyment of the ballplayers, whether he wins or loses, whether he is talented or not. A simple example of the conflict between the ballplayer's and the spectator's enjoyment is that of the crippled person, by definition less talented, who gets more enjoyment out of sports than the healthy persons, all other things being equal, for obvious reasons...
Hardly was the conflict over the Catholic unions settled when a new fight broke out-about the site of the new organization's headquarters. The T.U.C.'s Arthur Deakin fought for London. Some Americans favored almost any place but London. The squabble was a reflection of a deeper rift. The Americans considered the British T.U.C. leadership to be undynamic, bogged down in home worries and tied to the British Labor government's colonial and foreign policies...
Regardless of their shins and pates, The bravest seiz'd the butter-plates, And rushing headlong to the van, Sustained the conflict...
...conflict broke last summer when Iowa's Senator Hickenlooper accused Lilienthal of "incredible mismanagement" in handling the security program More than two months of Congressional sifting cleared Lilienthal, but a powerful Military Committee still looks over the AEC's shoulder, working to keep declassification of information as limited as possible...