Word: strife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many a strife we're fought for life...
...first act the girls, as usual, read their carefree love letters and stuffy parental epistles to one another before going to sleep. But by the last act, these letters have brought death and tragedy to them; the very rollicking idea of reading the letters aloud has caused strife and bitterness among them. The last letter to Lucerne, read by Erna, is one of the most touching scenes in recent years...
...Fight For Freedom Committee, have spent the greater part of their energies in swinging their already convinced quarter of the population further and further towards war. There is no reason to believe that America First will abandon its dignifying tactics. If this country is to be saved from civil strife, the interventionists will have to pay more attention to that entire 75 per cent...
Somewhere, but I knew not where-somehow, but I knew not how-by some beings, but I knew not by whom-a battle, a strife, an agony . . . was evolving. . . . I had the power, and yet had not the power, to decide it. ... I had the power, if I could raise myself to will it; and yet ... I lay inactive...
After two weeks of negotiating they reached a boiling point. Last week discussions ended. But not in strife. All was still harmony in the glass industry. Said affable veteran Harry Cook, union president: "When we got tired of looking at one another we went out and looked at something else. Then when we came back things seemed to go better." Workers won wage increases totaling $3,000,000, decided that things had gone all right...