Word: strife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time of great crisis last week, when Europe seethed with civil strife as well as war, the new U.S. Secretary of State, platinum-haired Edward R. Stettinius Jr., chose to restate U.S. foreign policy...
...biggest news around here--that is, besides Boegie Campbell's new girl friend--is the Drexler nuptials, to be held at 4 o'clock tomorrow. Alack and alas, big Fred is going to leave the happy ranks of us bachelors and descend into the arena of marital strife. No more staying out nights; no more staying after 1600; no more money. But I suppose there must be compensations. Anyway, all are invited to the ceremony which is being held at the Chapel in Hahvud Yaad. Bill Cousins is going to be best man and is selling tickets good...
State of a Nation. France was resistant and revengeful. But she was also weak. Four years of German rule and civil strife had sickened...
...sovereign in exile, 43-year-old King George of Greece, sheltered by Britain but unwanted by his people, Winston Churchill had no mention. Of the divided Greeks themselves he complained that one faction had "murdered" a British officer, and added: "It is painful to see [their] confusion and internecine strife. . . . Greek killing Greek with munitions sent to them for killing Germans...
...episode of Earl Warren's past remembered most unfavorably on the West Coast is his handling of the celebrated Point Lobos case. In 1936, at the height of West Coast labor strife, the chief engineer of the freighter Point Lobos was stabbed and beaten to death in his cabin, while the ship lay at an Alameda dock...