Word: conflicting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reply to one question. Asked what happens when scientific truth conflicts with "religious truth," he replied in effect that there can be no conflict - truth is truth. Galileo, Copernicus and a host of others, from bitter personal experience, could testify to the contrary...
...Last Trees. "Even the ruins of Berlin," TIME Correspondent Dave Richardson cabled this week, "are marked by the East-West conflict of the past eleven months. In past springs, stately chestnut and linden trees had spread a canopy of pink and white over the ruins. This year, street after street in Berlin is bare of trees. In the long hard winter of the blockade, Berlin's people had to decide whether to accept Soviet Russia's offer of coal or cut down their trees. They chose to give up the trees. At first it was only one tree...
...been more successful than not in the struggle for recovery. But Europe, divided, hostile, and unhappy, has felt little joy at any "victory" for either side in the war of nerves. The re-opening of the German question can conceivably lead to a cautious resolution of East-West conflict in Europe. But if the lifting of the siege is the only development--if the foreign ministers again stalemate--Europe and world peace will be little better off than before...
Exit, a God. A sociologist who has spent a lifetime studying the conservative folk of Japan's fishing villages said last week: "Everywhere I go the conflict is the same. It is the young against the old. The old instinctively want to preserve past ways, but they are losing. Now, in the village assemblies the youngsters speak out against their fathers-often violently. The old, rigid family structure is cracking. Where the young will go, what faith they will finally adopt, I don't know...
...long ordinance prohibiting street parking after 2 a.m. The Police Department at one time stated that this law was written "to keep way clear for fire equipment," but insulted firemen said they could move cars just as fast at night as any other time. This inter-service conflict was resolved by both departments hastily dropping their attempts to explain the law; they now identically state that "even if the regulation is ridiculous, a law is a law and we'll enforce...