Word: discordantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just as it was at the start. Neither Shaw nor Shaw's King has really upset the apple cart; he has merely tossed out half a dozen Shavian apples of discord. In the end, King and Prime Minister have taken turns producing cards they have up their sleeves, which is a playwright's way of keeping going no less than a politician's. One such playwright's card is to have Breakages, .Ltd. suddenly amalgamate the U.S. and Britain. Another is to throw in a purely irrelevant interlude of sex-or of the lack...
More particularly, Farnsworth noted five "monotonously familiar" aspects of the background of students who fail or do poorly in-college work. 1) Discord between parents, making it impossible for the dependent child to love one parent without getting in trouble with the other. 2) "Absence of warm feelings and sincere emotional reactions on the part of those with whom the growing person has contact...
...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...