Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order to get the full cooperation, on an equal basis, of the United States Government in an international conflict," added Mr. Eden, "I would travel not only from Geneva to Brussels but from Melbourne to Alaska!" To this speech the House responded with the loudest cheers it has ever given Secretary Eden...
...there is a basic conflict", said Mr. Woodworth, "between that objective and the necessary duty of any glee club to present good concerts. A group of 237 becomes unwiedly in practising for public performances...
...they been particularly noted by their teachers, who observed only that, from having skipped grades, they were two or three years younger than their classmates. One 8-year-old lad, who had developed from the age of four a gift for drawing maps, had long been in conflict with his teacher over his habit of drawing them in the classroom after he finished his lessons. Said he: "When the teacher said, 'I must kill this map-drawing in you,' I felt bad. She can't kill map-drawing in me. Nobody...
...want ever to be in a position of criticizing our Administration, but I do think that all this hue & cry about collective bargaining could have been considerably less expensive if some ground rules had been set up. As it was, the early stages of the conflict resembled very much a ball game without an umpire and with everybody in the grandstands hollering advice. . . ." Four days later in Detroit, President Homer Martin of C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers shot back: "Mr. Knudsen's preference for craft unions might be explained by the fact that industrial unions seem...
...before it to hunt game and fight off raiders, and births, deaths and marriages taking place in the wagons lumbering along behind. Its patriarchal but still lusty leader was one Hendrik van der Berg, and the main plot of the novel revolves around his harsh, hard-bitten figure: the conflict between his Messianic impulses and his hopeless infatuation for the luscious and youthful Sannie van Reenen. his mind's decay under the strain, his eventual downfall. His followers go down with him, for largely through the bedeviled old man's mismanagement, the emigrants...