Word: discord
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tiny discord crept in: the competition from cheap Japanese pianos is being felt; but their grand pianos sell in the U.S. for three-fourths, not "onefourth the price of domestic models...
...McNamara and Rusk decided to issue statements at week's end denying that any such differences existed. Despite "the apparent divergence of opinion" between him and Rusk, said McNamara at a hastily convened news conference, the Administration is completely united in its support of the bombings. Rumors of discord were "amusing," McNamara declared, maintaining that over the past two years he could not "recall a single instance when the Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense have differed on bombing policy." Echoing McNamara, Rusk called their cooperation an "extraordinary partnership...
...popped in on Anthony Eden at the time of the Sudetenland crisis and found Eden in despair but still unable to make up his mind about what he would do. Nicolson was horrified at Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler, and he gives a vivid picture of the discord it caused among his upper-crust friends. When Chamberlain announced that he was making a second trip to Munich, he noted, "Raymond [Mortimer] rings me up and says, 'Isn't this ghastly?' Eddy [Sackville-West] rings me up and says, 'Isn't this hell?' Margot...
...payroll. But S.N.C.C., unlike CORE, has always been able to count on the fanatical zeal of its workers-most of whom receive only $20 a week-and does not seem in danger of imminent collapse. Yet, if CORE and S.N.C.C. are in bad shape, their power for promoting discord among Negroes is still very much alive. The problem of the split civil rights movement, said Martin Luther King last week, is as old as the pyramids. "Whenever Pharaoh wanted to keep the slaves in slavery," lamented King, "he kept them fighting among themselves...
...been a good one. In that sense, the problem is not whether the world is too Americanized but whether it is Americanized enough: whether the many millions who have not yet been exposed to the material advantages of American society can be guided toward them without revolution and discord. Even if that happens, though, the world will never become a grade-A, U.S.-inspected, homogenized world. It is too full of diversity for that, and the U.S. is a powerful part of that diversity...