Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Government may publicly express a pious wish that "industrial conflict would cease", or the virile hope that some "settlement satisfactory to both sides could be worked out", but certain it is that bloody strife between capital and labor will continue as long as organizations like the C.I.O. established for the deification of an aspiring Mussolini like John L. Lewis know they can count on the support of Federal, State, and local governments to come to their rescue when it appears that man's sacred right to work might be enforced after...
...weakness of any love-stricken being, their trust in him is shattered. That they should feel thus seems only natural, but the picture tries to make the situation highly dramatic. Does Parnell betray Ireland or Ireland Parnell? That is the question. The result is a hopelessly wishy-washy conflict between mass admiration and the illegal love of a party champion. With both sides in a deadlock, the script solves its problems by killing off Mr. Gable that Ireland may profit from his plight...
After a 15-month buildup, with an exciting interlude last winter while a new hero was substituted, the biggest news story of 1937 (so far) last week finally reached its climax on Coronation Day in Westminster Abbey. The element of conflict, without which no news story is great, lay between the reverent, laborious effort of the British people to stage a tremendous spectacle and perform a solemn ritual without any hitch, harm or boggle, and the implacable forces of Chance, innocent or vicious, which might suddenly transform their great drama into farce or tragedy, as a little spark did last...
...cover of the box, close his eyes and stand rigid, growling for a whole hour. In those hours even placing an apple on Achilles' nose failed to make him stir or eat. We believe that this experimental neurosis is caused by the equivalent of a human conflict situation...
...swank Mayflower Hotel knew that a letter of greeting from Franklin Roosevelt would be read to the Institute's 15th annual meeting, and that Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes would address some "informal remarks." They expected that Mr. Hughes would mention the work of the Supreme Court. Overt conflict over the President's plan to rejuvenate the Supreme Court would naturally be as remote as the conflict in ideology was near...