Word: strife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exhausted armies lunged feebly at each other, Lord Curzon, on behalf of the Supreme Council of the Allied Powers, suggested a mutually satisfactory line of demarcation, resolving as best it could the impossible ethnographic interming-lings left over after 1,000 years of strife. Neither side would listen. In the end the Poles were able to dictate a peace at Riga in 1921, establishing an eastern frontier which lasted until 1939 and the fourth partition of Poland...
...pasture, it is now and forever shall be known as the "Yard." Through the rooms in the Halls (not dorms, please) the cry of Rheinhardt has echoed for years. In "them good old days" it was "Rheinhardt" that signified "riot" to the lowly Freshmen Yardlings, and many were the strife brought on by that call to arms, strife that often carried over to the Square and wreaked destruction on the fair city of Cambridge...
There comes a time in an Ensign's life. When he would be done with slide-rule strife...
...Civil strife racked the nation. Between 1921 and 1929 three spectacular attempts were made on the King's life. In 1924 the country had 200 political assassinations. Then, in 1934, Boris approved a military coup that suppressed the constitution, dissolved the Sobranye, abolished political parties. A year later he installed himself as dictator, began to play power politics...
...strove with none. I always hated strife...