Word: discordances
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Conciliation in Cairo last week brought discord in London. Tory backbenchers were up in arms. Led by the mustachioed military figure of Captain Charles Waterhouse, 41 Tories delivered an ultimatum: they would split the Tory Party over a Suez settlement...
Neutral Switzerland has played host to many of history's most serious international wrangles, but none of them was as chockful of noisy discord as the international meeting which drew to a roaring close last week in Bern's Wankdorf Stadium. Before 55,000 wildly yelling fans, teams from 16 different countries wound up the international competition for the Jules Rimet Cup, the world's highest soccer prize...
...producer, she an equally intellectual writer. Around this hard-working pair in 1938-39 swirls the theater life of Paris, popping with misfits, eccentrics, and tough careerists. Smug in her harmony with Pierre, Franchise finds it hard to understand why other people's lives are so full of discord...
...true picture of Egypt's "gentle revolution" and discord, Bell was hampered by a façade of secrecy and official announcements. However, he added: "As we tried to find out who was doing the real work in government, all trails led to Nasser." This was confirmed when the Egyptian Republic was launched in June 1953, when Naguib became President and Premier and Nasser was named Deputy Premier. Naguib, Bell reported, "will continue his real talents working 18 hours daily as the regime's symbol before Egypt's 22 million people...
...Shiva and Her Snake, described in Saturday's CRIMSON. I feel compelled to point out one inaccuracy: your writer said that the orchestra accompanied Shiva's act with "something Arabian," whereas it was actually Persian music. A petty correction? Yes. But in the present aura of international discord, it ill behooves us to lay ourselves open in any way to charges of anti-Persianism...