Word: discords
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...been found so since Congress, at the suggestion of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, instituted the custom in 1792. Only once has a ripple of discord disturbed the ceremony. In 1801 the trial had to be postponed after the seat of government was moved from Philadelphia to Washington. At this unseemly break in an established tradition, Mint Director Elias Boudinot wrote indignantly to President John Adams, protesting that public confidence in the federal coinage was being undermined...
...Prime Minister King to defer his decision. But the Prime Minister knew, and Canadians knew, that if the war went into another year, the issue would have to be met. They knew also that the zombies had become a source of irritation to men in all the services, of discord to Canadians at home...
International Discord. In France, U.S.O. entertainers claimed to have discovered that the Nazis had tuned all French pianos one half tone...
...America and England, and, as they say, 'to return China into the bosom of East Asia.' They try to buy defeatists, capitulationists and appeasers, acting under the guise of promising the 'independence and sovereignty of China.' They seek indefatigably to sharpen China's inner discord and arouse civil...
Democratic Talk. For China's inner discord, War and the Working Class blamed not the Chinese Communists but Chiang Kaishek. "For years a great part of Chiang's best troops, headed by the most experienced generals and officers, have been 'guarding' China from the 'Communists' . . . who are waging a continuous, active, partisan war against the greater portion of the combined Japanese and puppet Chinese troops...