Word: strife
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...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...
...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...
...biblical faith prefer to speak of its "restoration"-was something of a miracle. So, in a way, is the fact that a nation of 3,000,000 people, surrounded by implacably inimical Arab states whose populations outnumber it 42 times, has not only survived a quarter-century of strife and war, but grown and prospered beyond its founders' wildest dreams. Thus on May 7* Israelis will celebrate their nation's 25th anniversary by throwing the biggest bash in its history. The ceremonies will begin at sundown on May 6 at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. There twelve torches will...
SIXTEEN months after East Pakistan, with the help of Indian military might, successfully won its war of independence from West Pakistan to form the nation of Bangladesh, political strife continues to plague the Asian subcontinent...
...LAWYERS: There was a young lawyer who showed up at a revival meeting and was asked to deliver a prayer. Unprepared, he gave a prayer straight from his lawyer's heart: "Stir up much strife amongst the people, Lord," he prayed, "lest thy servant perish...