Word: discordance
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...accuse TIME of a calculated attempt to keep alive and foment religious discord and animosity . . . between Protestants and Catholics, and between Protestants and Protestants . . . This is tawdry and despicable...
...Especially to be avoided: 1) "atonality, dissonance and discord," 2) "confused, neuropathological combinations that turn music into cacophony," 3) anything sounding like the "bourgeois" contemporary music of Western Europe...
...Uganda cuts deep, and lays a heavy burden on the British conscience. It leaves Whitehall less convinced that by giving way, it gains. Uganda is the showcase of British imperialism: prosperous (on coffee and cotton), well governed (by Sanders-of-the-River-style district officers), untouched by the racial discord that disfigures neighboring Kenya. Understandably, Britons argued that if Uganda is in peril, the Empire is nowhere safe...
...problem drivers referred to his clinic by the courts, Psychologist Canty found 100 certifiably insane. 850 feeble-minded and 1,000 who were former inmates of mental hospitals. Of the rest, he said, many are "psychoneurotic and emotionally unstable, impulsive and irresponsible, or daydreamers preoccupied by financial stress, marital discord or sex problems. [Others are] disturbed by inferiority feelings . . . because of small stature, poor clothing, lack of money, or driving a dilapidated...
...administrative function over all of the nation's federal courts. Warren's knowledge of the problems of government and his administrative ability would serve him well in that phase of his work. In addition, his knack for pulling opposing forces together would help to prevent discord on the often-divided court...