Word: discordance
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...along what used to be called the lifeline of empire, flashes of discord flared up like warning signals. Cyprus went from bad to worse. At the Red Sea refueling base of Aden, nationalists shouted abuse at Her Majesty's visiting minister. Farther east, Ceylon's new Prime Minister had notified Britain that it must remove its forces from the base at Trincomalee. Talks on a new status for Singapore collapsed, and Chief Minister David Marshall departed, demanding: "How long can you keep Singapore with a bayonet?" Before long, Britain may have no secure base across the wide expanse...
Pierre Poujade. with his kinetic oratory and his toilet-wall slang, has better than anyone else harnessed the French citizen's growing discontent with the Fourth Republic. He seized attention by his fight against taxes, but his popularity reflects a deeper discord in the France of 1956. That discontent became hurtful with the loss of Dienbienphu. agonizing with the rebellions in Tunisia and Morocco. Now, confronted with the crisis in Algeria, the Fourth Republic faces a crisis in the existence of the parliamentary system itself...
Happily, long years of practice have made the dedicated track fan proof against the distracting discord on the floor. Somehow he can spot his favorite in the welter of colored sweat suits. Last week Parry O'Brien was not the only record breaker he had to watch...
Kissable Age. Father Leopold Mozart was a musician-a violinist and court composer to the Archbishop of Salzburg. Even so, he thought it precocious that "Wolferl" at the age of three should "bawl with disappointment" when his small fingers struck a discord on the clavier. At four, Wolferl scribbled down his first clavier concerto; at five, before he had had a single violin lesson, he played second fiddle in a trio. "One need not have learnt in order to play second fiddle," he informed the grownups...
...estate, and was also a key figure in the paper's purchase by its employees. Ratliff himself gave the most outspoken statement of the board's reasons: "They say I was fired for 'disloyalty, conspiracy to undermine normal channels, attempts to stampede and coerce, persistently fomenting discord . . .' I deny these charges." Instead, the veteran newsman accused the paper's top management of feathering its own nest at the expense of the 4,200 stockholders...