Word: disunion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Newton Estilac Leal. In the exchange of compliments, General Fiuza took occasion to deplore "the sinister infiltrations . . . that are penetrating our armed forces." General Estilac, a leftist who has consistently refrained from getting tough with Communists in the army, answered that "unscrupulous agents of intrigue are trying to foment disunion and mutual distrust with unfounded, unpatriotic accusations impugning the honor of high government officials...
...Middle East, where order threatened to burn away in a fire of nationalism, an old king and an old politician went, down before assassins' bullets. In Belgium, the crowning of a young king promised to heal the disunion of his nation...
Beyond these specific trouble spots, Communism has scores of opportunities, including the great opportunity of waiting for disunion or economic depression in the free world...
...obstruction, evasion, and well-nigh intolerable slowness" are also necessary concomitants of the American political system. But lest the conditions he adds a reminder that "no matter how high one puts the price of federal union, it is small compared to the price which other continents have paid for disunion, and for the little national states in which parties of principle can live (or more often die) for their clearly defined causes...