Word: strife
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There has been no global bloodletting in the years since World War II, but-almost as if by some law of compensation -internal strife has risen to an extraordinary degree. Old claims and ancient grievances, seemingly long forgotten in modern nation-states, flared up with greater virulence than ever...
Despite the military's contention that life for blacks is better in service than out, fewer than three black GI's in ten said they get along better with whites in Vietnam than they did back home. And nearly 65 per cent of them expect the racial strife in Vietnam to grow...
...only necessary to recall the decade Sonny and Gunner were inadvertently hurled into-one of political assassinations, absurd war, and tumultuous racial strife-to appreciate the futility of their journey. If you can escape one car crash, you live only to be propelled into the big new one around the corner...
...office. The discouraging precedent of that initial summit has been echoed virtually every time Arab leaders have gathered to wrestle with the Palestinian problem. The meeting called in Cairo last week by Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser was no better-and perhaps worse. The savage civil strife in Jordan polarized Arab leaders as never before. Not once, in fact, were delegates from all of the ten Arab states represented in Cairo able to sit down together, underscoring the Arabs' difficulty in papering over their disagreements and presenting even a facade of unity...
Unbeatable Mistresses. Massive industrialization in Japan is less than 40 years old, thus there are no bitter memories of labor strife like those that nourish the militancy of U.S. workers. Far from viewing management as an enemy, most Japanese believe that in working to improve the company, they are helping themselves, the economy and the nation. Indeed, they are. Last year, for example, Japan produced 2,600,000 cars, of which 281,162 were shipped to the U.S., including 150,000 Toyotas...