Word: discordance
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Gossips have speculated that the dream couple has not been living happily ever after. Onscreen, they displayed the gentle chafing that is the sign of marital harmony, not discord. Diana, far from coming across as the Princess Peabrain that some have called her, was confident and rarely tongue-tied; with that ever so sly, slightly lidded look of hers, she imparted the gentlest hint of irony to the proceedings. The coaching that she received from Gandhi Director Sir Richard Attenborough paid off. Charles even provided a touch of Piccadilly farce by draping a handkerchief over his head to distract Sons...
...grievances aside, the department is not one marked by profound discord, says Grabar...
...neutral territory. Some Americans favored a get-acquainted session. Nancy Reagan in particular felt that if her husband could, as she once put it, "just talk to those people," it would help. But others feared that unless substantive success was guaranteed in advance, the encounter might exacerbate distrust and discord. For that reason, the U.S. would have preferred a summit with preordained results in the form of a major new agreement, such as the treaties limiting strategic arms signed at the Nixon-Brezhnev meeting in 1972 or at the Jimmy Carter-Brezhnev summit in 1979, the most recent encounter between...
...similar sense of disaffection prevails among some other Indochinese. Though social workers calculate that only about 2% of the refugee population turns to drug or alcohol abuse, far less than some other minorities, Vietnamese and Cambodian communities report unusually high rates of depression and marital discord. Says Kim Cook, a Vietnamese-born social worker in Washington: "They find the society to be highly stress producing." The disintegration of families is a particularly devastating blow to those raised in cultures in which the continuity of the generations was the bedrock of life. Cambodian- born Tino Cheav, whose husband was killed...
...also insisted that "the Franco-German relationship is, to the Chancellor's eyes and mine, fundamental for the success of Europe." In the absence of firm agreements, it seemed that the two leaders had fallen back on a bottom-line goal: to limit damage and ensure that the current discord does not widen...