Word: conflicts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their contemporaries the six great Presidents often seemed politically ahead of their times, but they were careful not to get too far ahead. They were all strong Presidents and magnified the powers of the executive at the expense of other branches of government. All but Washington fell into conflict with the Supreme Court, and all were consistently lambasted by the press. They were also alike in one other respect-they endured the rigors of office confident of being accorded an honored place in history...
...conflict between Clift and Wayne complements the inevitable quality of the drive. Just as the trek up the Chisolm Trail must keep going, so the tension between Clift and Wayne cannot stagnate. As they wind their way across the Panhandle the two men become more and more distraught and their enmity breaks the surface when Wayne threatens to hang two deserters. Clift protects the men, turns against Wayne and takes over the herd, leaving his former partner behind...
...they could not deal with the questions raised by the Economist, the delegates did make some progress on other fronts. Most important was the discussion of the relation (some Britons call it a conflict) between the Commonwealth and a Western European Union. Dominion representatives asked Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps if Britain's commitments to supply capital goods to Europe under the Marshall Plan would not interfere with the shipment of similar goods to their countries. Cripps said no. The visitors seemed impressed when he pointed out that Britain's capital goods exports to Commonwealth nations...
Under him a school of applied science has been added. He plans further new schools of commerce, social sciences, agriculture, diplomacy. His aim is to make academic standards high and broad enough to attract students, whatever their national background. Of the French-English conflict in Canada he says, "How it will work out is in the hands of Divine Providence, but the situation is getting better among educated people...
...Will Menninger has a simple illustration of the Conscious v. Unconscious conflict. The mind, he says, is something like a clown act featuring a two-man fake horse. The man up front (the Conscious part of the mind) tries to set the direction and make the whole animal behave; but he can never be sure what the man at the rear end of the horse (the Unconscious) is going to do next. If both ends of the horse are going in the same direction, your mental health is all right. If they aren't pulling together, there...