Word: strife
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years that he spent building the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover skillfully made it a national monument, seemingly as solid as the Great Pyramid. In the year since Hoover's death, the FBI has been so riven by internal weaknesses and strife as a result of Watergate that it more closely resembles a disintegrating piece of the Dakota Badlands. Several of its top officials intend to retire in the next four weeks. The bureau's vaunted esprit de corps is in tatters, and the morale of its 8,700 agents has been shattered...
...expulsion of the country's Asians. "My dear brother," Amin wrote, "it is quite true that you have enough problems on your plate, and it is surprising that you have the zeal to add on fresh ones." Amin then ticked off some of the "problems": racial strife in the U.S., Viet Nam, the ITT fiasco in Chile, and, of course, Watergate: "At this moment you are uncomfortably sandwiched in that unfortunate affair." Big Daddy signed off with a heartfelt benison from one hard-pressed statesman to another: "I ask almighty God to help you solve your problems...
...work-study methods of education and including students on policymaking committees. Now that relative calm has returned to most American schools, Antioch is still out of sync. Its main campus in rural Yellow Springs, Ohio, has been shut down for three weeks, and it is so divided by factional strife that many students and teachers question whether the college can survive. Says one disgruntled faculty member: "In the '50s, Antioch was considered one of the leading colleges in the country; now it is an experiment in anarchy...
...These include the company's rumored plans to shut down several antiquated plants in Akron and set up new facilities elsewhere, most probably in the South. Although face-to-face sessions and meetings with federal mediators were continuing, the outlook at week's end was for protracted strife...
...absurd. Sophia Loren appears as the most ravishing nun in Eu rope; she gave her life to mother church after her boyfriend got deep-fried in an oil fire. She ministers to the sick and the infirm as head of an Italian hospital, which is riddled with both political strife and human tragedy. The movie is unrelentingly simpleminded, and treats all subjects from cardiac ar rests to brimming bedpans with a jovial mixture of high spirits, low comedy and bad taste. Loren breezes through it all beautiful and oblivious, doing a dirty job with imperturbable elegance...