Word: strife
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They demanded an immediate investigation of the sluggish BIA and of past Indian treaties with the U.S. Government. The protesters also made a large point of calling for the ouster of the Pine Ridge tribal council president, Dick Wilson. In large part, the takeover reflected civil strife-a power struggle between two competing Indian factions. Facing off at Wounded Knee were moderates, led by Wilson, and the AIM activists, mostly Indians from outside the reservation, led by Russell Means...
...Lord Melbourne, no thanks to her. Caroline conducts a mad love affair with Lord Byron (Richard Chamberlain), submitting eagerly to such ignominious charades as playing Nubian slave to his surly prince. She thereby offers herself as a willing victim to the Romantic Agony, not to mention the subsequent shame, strife and scandal...
...warned that "failure to do so may very well return us to those extremely unpleasant times when our schools were torn with strife and disruption...
...friend of mine was shot in the leg in Vietnam eight years ago. The 1964 war had not yet reached the full-scale peak of American involvement, with search-and-destroy operations and massive bombing and defoliation, but the United States already had 15,000 advisers in strife-torn Southeast Asia. America's longest war was already well underway...
...concerned with issues that no Western society has handled well," he wrote in his letter of resignation from his Harvard deanship. "But if over the next decade or two we are to have a little less inflation, a little lower level of unemployment, a little less industrial strife, then it is essential to develop the knowledge, the experience and the institutions to deal with this complex area...