Word: strife
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...turmoil and strife of the 1960s changed the CCA "like it changed virtually every other institution in the city," Kistiakowsky said...
FICTION: Consenting Adults or The Duchess Will Be Furious, Peter De Vries ∙Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ∙Loon Lake, E.L. Doctorow ∙Music for Chameleons, Truman Capote ∙Rough Strife, Lynne Sharon Schwartz ∙The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble The Second Coming, Walker Percy
Ring out a slowly dying cause. And ancient forms of party strife; Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws...
FICTION: Bellefleur, Joyce Carol Oates Consenting Adults or The Duchess Will Be Furious, Peter De Vries∙Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ∙Music for Chameleons, Truman Capote Rough Strife, Lynne Sharon Schwartz∙The Magic Labyrinth, Philip Jose Farmer∙The Second Coming, Walker Percy
...Israeli strikes into "Fatahland" also dramatized the dangerous vulnerability of Lebanon, which is as helpless to fend off such external attacks as it is to control its own endemic sectarian strife. Beirut has been sliding deeper into its gloomiest mood since the civil war of 1975-76. Sniping attacks between armed rival gangs, unexplained explosions, mysterious abductions-the common currency of a city on the edge of anarchy-are on the increase. Shops close shortly after sundown, and the streets are nearly empty by early evening. Wealthy Lebanese have again sent their wives and children out of Beirut for safety...