Word: strife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chungking and all China there was double reason to celebrate. In the cliffside capital, the nation's main political groups had successfully ended a historic conference. After nearly 20 years of civil strife, the way was open at last for peaceful cooperation within a common frame of government, for rebuilding...
Should the C.I.O. auto workers have a closed shop? No, said Justice Rand: "[This] would subject the company's interest in individual employes ... to strife within the union and between them and the union. . . . [It] would deny the individual Canadian the right to seek work independently of . . . any organized group . . . [and] would place his economic life at the mercy . . . of an uncontrolled and here an unmatured group...
...about our battlefront and foreign affairs coverage, and about the correspondents responsible for it. Now, after four long years away, the spotlight has shifted to U.S. affairs-to the problems of returning G.I.s, the acute shortage of housing, the steel strikes, and the many other phases of current industrial strife. The world is watching to see how the U.S. handles these problems, and TIME is fully prepared to cover them-from the national, not the Ivory Tower, point of view...
...moved with ease among the statesmen of the world. And, though he was not a politician's idea of a politician, he had done an even better job of governing his country. He had taken a nation of two cultures, a land often torn by racial strife, and held it together, for its own good...
...greatest trials came in the conscription crisis of 1944. Mackenzie King is thoroughly Scotch-English in temperament. He speaks but the poorest French and has little fondness for French Canadians as such. But he is well aware of the need for unity in a country long racked by sectional strife between its 3,500,000 French and the rest of Canada. He has always given French Canada what he considers fair and just treatment. When he was forced to impose military conscription, because of the soldier shortage in October 1944, he was squarely on the horns of a dilemma...