Word: conflicted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...expletives-deleted confrontation brought to the surface a long-standing feud. Downey, 36, received a 1-Y medical draft deferral during the Viet Nam War because of a pierced eardrum. Dornan, 51, a former Air Force jet pilot, was in flight training at the tail end of the Korean conflict. "I was getting my Air Force wings when Downey was in kindergarten," says Dornan...
Congress has a proud history of conflict resolution. Lawmakers occasionally settled things at ten paces, until William Graves of Kentucky killed Jonathan Cilley of Maine in 1839, prompting Congress to pass an antidueling law. Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, a master of invective, once derided a colleague as a "noisome, squat and nameless animal." In 1856 Preston Brooks, a South Carolina Congressman bent on avenging an insult to an infirm uncle in the Senate, came upon Sumner from behind and, guttapercha cane in hand, beat him senseless on the Senate floor. Brooks resigned but was immediately voted back into office...
Cienfuegos was the highest-ranking Salvadoran officer to be gunned down in the capital since the guerrilla conflict began. Almost two years ago, members of the F.P.L. took responsibility for the murder of U.S. Navy Lieut. Commander Albert Schaufelberger, an attache at the U.S. embassy. Informed of the Cienfuegos killing, President Jose Napoleon Duarte denounced the crime as part of a leftist policy of "urban destabilization...
Schultz said hat many of Harvard's best musicians are no tin bands. He added, "We're here for the academics, and when the two start to conflict, the academics are going...
...addition. The Crimson should have noted that the author of the article is the son of a former commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA). This association might have created the appearance of a conflict of interest because the main accusations against Feldstein's research were levelled by two SSA economists. The editors were unaware of the family association prior to publication, but do not believe that it affected the objectivity or fairness of the article...