Word: rifted
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...their wits by the imperialists' blackmail of nuclear war, exaggerated the consequences of the destructiveness of nuclear war and begged imperialism for peace at any cost." The same newspapers noted only in a sentence that Khrushchev had also made some remarks and received "warm applause." The rift was public, and it was growing...
MACMILLAN DENIGRATES BONN IN WASHINGTON, THREATENS REPRISALS . . . EUROPE FACING RIFT. Alarmed and angry, West German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano summoned the British ambassador for an official explanation...
Died. Ivan Karaivanov, 71, Bulgarian-born, Moscow-trained international Communist agent who organized Iraq's Reds during World War II, sided with Yugoslavia during the Tito-Stalin rift, became a close Tito crony, a member of the Central Committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party; of kidney and heart ailments; in Belgrade...
...received by Mrs. Calhoun "with civility," but the call was never returned. President Andrew Jackson himself, the story goes, begged Floride to return the call in the interest of peace and protocol, but she disdainfully asked her butler to show him the door. The trifling spat widened the political rift between Jackson and his Vice President, probably ended Calhoun's chances to succeed Jackson...
...Cause a serious rift in the party...