Word: fractious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...game of "peaceful coexistence" that Nikita Khrushchev has set out to play often keeps him as busy as a one-man army in a two-front war. There is the problem of keeping his own fractious Communist house in order, and at the same time keeping the warm wind of détente blowing toward the West. Last week missives and missionaries were flying in all directions over Nikita's far-flung battle lines...
...generation of luckless farmers: Burnt Crop Creek, because they had watched the stalks of cotton and even of corn wither in the sun, and heard the heavy winds rattle through the hone dry fields like seeds ticking in a gourd. They merely quit the land, leaving that fractious patient stream to reclaim its banks. Another generation arose, their birthright of planting cancelled: they went through the forest and chalked the highest hardwoods. Not long after the oxen in jangling chains shafted road and tore the earth as they pulled the felled trunks to the water.... But the stream endured that...
Moderation & Macaroni. The Iforas rebels represent only a fractious fraction of some 500,000 "blue men" who range the Sahara from Mauritania to Libya. Nominally white, they get their colorful name from the dark blue robes they wear. The robes are impregnated with a cheap dye that rubs off and stains the Tuaregs' skins a glossy, metallic blue. The Tuaregs seem to be related to the Phoenicians, write with an ancient alphabet called tifinagh that can be read from right to left, left to right, up or down. But they use it often to compose erotic poetry or scrawl...
...sometime physician and longtime politico with considerable government experience. On the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange, shares surged upward; the battered peso rallied four points (from 139 to 135 to the dollar), and throughout the country the sensation was one of deep relief and a return of confidence. Even the fractious military seemed content. "We kept our promise to hold elections," said a colonel as he headed for his estancia in the countryside. "Now our job is done, and we can go home...
...Common Market membership hung precariously in the balance. Pressing their advantage, Labor and Liberal leaders cried gleefully that the government's foreign and domestic policies were on the brink of collapse. In Macmillan's own Conservative Party, backbenchers were openly restive, and would become even more fractious during Parliament's Christmas recess as they went home to measure the uneasy mood of the country...