Word: discords
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Underneath this sonorous note, which covered another discord in the U.S.-British voice, was Britain's known willingness, when the talks began, to give Formosa to the Communists in a peace settlement-an attitude that many Americans labeled appeasement, no matter what protestations the communiqué made. The U.S. insisted that it would not be blackmailed by Mao into sacrificing Chiang Kai-shek for what it was sure could only be a temporary peace in the Far East. Attlee reluctantly accepted this point of view...
...Councillor Lynch suggested a more immediate cause of possible mutinies and discord. He brought forth the list of "Reducators at Harvard" which the National Council for American Education has been peddling for a couple of years...
These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us: though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects: love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide; in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt sun and father. King Ledr, Act 1, scene...
Like the Earl of Gloucester, the Cambridge City Council might have blamed the discord which besets the country on the late eclipse in the moon. For as the moon darkened in the earth's shadow Monday night, it took on a slightly reddish...
...going away. At either five or six a.m., depending on local whim, they bugle their first notes of hail to the new morning. They do this in pairs, generally consisting of one accomplished bugler and one tyro. They then proceed, for precisely an hour, to bugle a nicely calculated discord with the tyro burbling and burping perhaps half a beat behind the master bugler. You get used to it and after awhile you come to think of them as friends, too -not the ones you take into eternity, but as friends all the same...