Word: strife
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Throughout the ages, nation and nation, races and classes, castes and creeds, have been pitted against one another in open warfare; but when the strife is over and treaties are signed they sit down together, forget their past differences...
Economic struggle has been interwoven with political strife. Indeed it has only been the rapid spread of Socialism that has held the moderate groups together against political extremists. The Socialists are today the largest group and the back-bone of the Republic. Though they cannot carry an election, they hold the balance of power. Representing the moderate workers against both monarchistic Junkers and Communists, they have decided to support the central Republican groups...
...little mining town of Herrin aroused the whole U. S., not many years since, with the story of a mining massacre perpetrated in the course of a strike. Intermittently since then it has been the scene of strife and of murder, until the world has begun to wonder whether Herrin will not soon be as uninhabited as the table where the hie gingham dog and the onetime calico...
...could not believe, when I read the speech, that Nat Dial was the author. He and I come from that little storm-centre of the United States which has given to the nation some of its brightest and purest lights in the political arena, and during the turmoil and strife of war we maintained and kept the faith of pure and unadulterated democracy. The old party was our pillar of fire by night and cloud by day. When the hosts of rapine were threatening to engulf us, the Democratic Party was the point around which the beleaguered white people...
...lofty toned America of 1917 and 1918. A lasting insult to the men of 1776 who fought our battles and won our freedom for us. The writer is not a swearing man; if he were he would lift aloft the Henry Watterson war-cry in the late Hohenzollern strife and paraphrasing it devoutly cry: 'To hell with the name Rainier from Mount Tacoma...