Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Certainly our country can ill-afford to have foreign nations involved in a war, especially a conflict which with little provocation might develop into another international struggle with disrupting and demoralizing effects to our commerce. There are those who would have us believe the U. S. to be a self-sufficient nation. On the contrary, intelligent persons know that to be prosperous our merchants, manufacturers and growers must export at least 10% of their products. In turn, we must import rubber, spices, alloy minerals, yute and countless necessities of which we produce little or none within our 48 States...
...touched a helpless adversary with a magic stick received more credit within the tribe than one who won a desperate hand-to-hand encounter. Cruelty, vanity, greed, foolhardiness and magnificent courage blended in Crow war psychology, fleetness counted for more than skill or valor, and war was less armed conflict as white men know it than an incredibly dangerous game played according to difficult rules...
Results: Killed, as far as could be determined in a conflict which has had less honest press coverage than any war of modern times, have been about 100,000; wounded about the same. The mysterious Gran Chaco has at last been explored, even to some extent developed and colonized. Economically, Paraguay is no better off than Bolivia; both are financially exhausted. Simon Patiño's mine stocks were up last week. And last week in Asuncion there was earnest talk of rewarding Paraguay's able General Estigarribia with the rank of Marshal, a title last held...
Even casual readers of U. S. history books usually have an ordered, although not very detailed, picture of the sequence of events that led up to and followed the Civil War. For them armed conflict began with the guns at Fort Sumter and ended with Lee's surrender at Appomattox. For post-war developments they think of Lincoln's assassination, the attempt to impeach Andrew Johnson, the scandal of carpetbag rule in the South. Generally accepted without question is the historian's characterization of Reconstruction as "The Tragic...
...bride, still going through the first stages of marriage to a stranger, becomes despairingly aware of the irrepressible conflict between her mother and her husband, and her own divided loyalty...