Word: strife
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...British government last week invoked additional emergency measures to deal with what Prime Minister Edward Heath called the "gravest crisis since World War II." Burdened by fuel shortages, widespread labor strife and an unprecedented trade deficit expected to reach $3.5 billion this year, Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber announced a $3 billion slash in government spending. It was the largest budget slash in British history and signaled the end of Heath's go-go plan for economic prosperity...
Crouch, like a growing number of other observers, fears that the Prime Minister's militant attitude could touch off class strife in Britain's stratified society. Britons have generally sympathized with the miners' plight, but there is growing resentment against them over the coal shortage that they have caused by their month-long work slowdown...
Despite all this, Chileans, if they had the choice, would probably reluctantly vote for the junta as the lesser of evils. Though the junta is hardly popular, it does have the country running again. Chileans chafe under its totalitarian restrictions, but they also remember the chaos and strife of Allende's regime. For the moment Chile's citizens appear content to get back to work and the rhythms of an orderly society. But with their long democratic tradition, they are not likely to tolerate junta rule indefinitely...
...incident and Khrushchev banging his shoe. First moves into Viet Nam. Civil rights in the South. In the 1962 sequel to Advise and Consent, Drury tried to keep up. He escalated his story into a counterinsurgency war in Central Africa, coupled with radical attempts to exploit racial strife in the U.S. He also moved his senatorial heroes into the still windier forum of the United Nations. But these days no writer should play "Can You Top This?" with history...
...behaved as human beings and not as cogs in a machine. Casals's popularity accordingly extended to peasants, musicians and politicians alike. His status as the world's greatest cellist was virtually unquestioned. But he was evidently less ineffective politically than Franco's victory and the world's continuing strife might make him seem. "That Pablo Casals!" one Fascist general remarked. "I will tell you what I will do to him if I catch him. I will put an end to his agitation. I will cut off his arms--both of them--at the elbow!" And Casals indicated...