Word: strife
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...West's answer to Vishinsky. It was a sweeping Anglo-American resolution on "Essentials of Peace." Among other things, its twelve points would pledge all U.N. members not to use force or the threat of force in ways contrary to the U.N. charter; to refrain from fomenting civil strife in other countries; to carry out international agreements in good faith; to promote human rights; to grant free access to U.N. agencies; to exercise restraint in the use of the U.N. veto; to drop barriers which prevent a free exchange of information; to give up a measure of national sovereignty...
...army support. Llovera Páez, No. 3 man, has been an uncertain balance of power-but not a power in himself. In the scramble for sides, several hundred officers have been quietly jailed. The strategy of A.D. leaders is to keep building up strength until army strife gives them a wide-open chance to take over the government...
...which wants to drive them out of the valley? Whatever his concept of the black panther was, Clark doesn't carry it through. Therefore, one begins to suspect that the black cat is only literary device for effectively creating a ghostly mood to overhang the Bridges family's internal strife. I don't think that ws the original idea, but by leaving his purpose open to such speculation. Clark's otherwise sharp psychological study is dulled...
...Johnson was not a man to wait long, either for help or advice. By last week he had bulldozed his way through stubborn opponents and helpful advisers alike. He had already achieved something approaching mastery of the Pentagon, but it was an uneasy, strife-racked empire that he ruled...
Poet Walter Savage Landor (who strove with none, for none was worth his strife) was shocked almost to speechlessness...