Word: discords
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...surprises began a month after H.L. Hunt's death at age 85. When his will was opened, Ray turned out to be executor with full administrative powers over the estate-possibly because H.L. had doted on Ray as the only son of his second marriage. Discord soon developed between Ray and his three older halfbrothers, Bunker, Herbert and Lamar.* If not eccentrics in H.L.'s mold, they are at least wheeler-dealers. Bunker, in particular, has grabbed headlines with gaudy speculations in silver and soybeans. To resolve the conflict, Ray agreed in mid-1975 to split the empire...
...bosky dell, the playwright's words linger in the air like ineffable music. Shakespeare seems to extol a gentle harmony in nature, which he feels that gods, kings, lovers and men of common clay would do well to emulate. A shrewd judge of audiences, he sows discord to whet the appetite for concord...
...fresh, and national security was the excuse to hide numerous illegal activities in the Nixon White House. But there are occasions when national security should be legitimately invoked. "My roughest moments involve intelligence matters," says Powell. "There is no way to prove yourself. The situation is made for discord and distrust. It costs me more in terms of my credibility than any other situation. It all boils down to: Trust me, folks...
...early life, spent shuttling back and forth between her paternal grandmother's provincial estate and her mother's modest dwellings in Paris. The grandmother despised her "socially inferior" daughter-in-law and continually tried to separate her from the child. Sand later described herself as "the apple of discord" between the two rival mothers. Recalling one particularly violent separation from her mother, Sand wrote...
...Carter is less mysterious than he is made out to be. The Johnson-Nixon experience so shriveled our confidence in presidential simplicity that we have become a nation of uneasy skeptics, sure only that Presidents are seldom what they seem and attuned to hear in every little psychological discord the dirge of neurosis. Gerald Ford should have taught us better: that a President can be wrong in important ways without in the least being sick. Jimmy Carter may turn out wrong-is bound to in some ways-but I for one will be surprised if his major troubles grow...