Word: strife
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bigger assert themselves strongly-the smaller not so much but they still assert themselves and though hidden they strive to be seen and in so doing change their bent and direction. While these powers are at work pushing, pulling, sideways, downwards, upwards, I can hear the sound of their strife and there is a great music being played...
...digging his way to more than 1,500 archaeological finds in Transjordan and the Negev (TIME cover, Dec. 13, 1963); in Cincinnati. Dr. Glueck was called both "the scholar with a shovel" and "the rabbi with a rifle" because of his fearless exploring in the sniper-infested desert of strife-torn Israel...
...apple will rot." Or as John Lindsay puts it: "If we cannot move forward in the cities, we will move backward in America. If we fail now, the cost will far outweigh today's financial deficits. They will be measured in despair, in hatred, in bitterness and in strife...
...have important jobs that need to be done. But some of you cling to these jobs with tenacity, almost desperation, terrified at being sent home. And some of you have deliberately chosen Europe as a healing exile from the fevers of America. You are not fleeing stagnation but strife, not bourgeois conformity but the rant of radicalism or reaction. What you are seeking in Europe is security, peace, order...
Fuller explained that the principal cause of alienation and strife between nations was their effort to balance out the inequity of the world's resources and "to obtain those things necessary for human survival." Stating that the politicians 'method of effacing this aim have always been "incredibly stupid," Fuller placed hope in the restructuring of educational methods. He said people must begin to see the earth as a whole system with very definite limits to its capacity, and that too much attention has been given to specialization...