Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blood Feud. In its simplest, unhappiest terms, the fight is the result of a blood feud between Lewis Strauss and Clint Anderson, both eminently capable, dedicated citizens who have served the nation long and well, but who, by the chemistry of personality and the conflict of ideas, have come to hate each other. But the Strauss case has gone far beyond the personal quarrel between two men; it has widened out to involve their friends and their associates, strained old ties and old loyalties, brought charge and countercharge, insult and counterinsult, rumor and counterrumor. And it has become a major...
This closeness results from the "conflict of issues--the medium of law and its source--" is also what comprises diplomacy, the ambassador said. He criticized the term "East-West conflict" and preferred to describe the world situation as one in which people are free to govern themselves against a world of a single political system of terror and frustration of democratic processes...
...feel that religious beliefs are among the central issues in the conflict between the Soviet sphere and the "West...
...approve of banning books because they conflict with beliefs of particular organized religions...
...rather than surrender "if the United States should find itself in such a position that all other alternatives were closed, save a world war with the Soviet Union or surrender to the Soviet Union." All of those responding to the poll must have been aware that such a conflict could mean nothing less than a nuclear holcaust thaat would annihilate Western civilization, if not our the very species, and in which "victory" would become a word utterly without meaning. Even as did Congress in its frightening patriotic circus last year over a smiliar question--though with even less excuse...