Word: strife
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...last week, Spina could claim the ultimate satisfaction in police work: without undue harshness or permissiveness, merely by enforcing the law as it is written, his cops had kept the peace in a potentially turbulent city. Even when the Harlem riots of 1964 set off secondary explosions of racial strife in the neighboring cities of Jersey City, Paterson and Elizabeth, Newark managed to keep its cool...
King Hussein recognizes the reality of Israel's existence better than any of the other Arabs, and he knows that the failure of his fellow Arabs to recognize it can only mean continued strife for the entire Middle East. The Arabs are already beginning to squabble among themselves again, and some heads are bound to roll when the first shock of defeat wears off. "If the situation persists," warned Hussein last week, "there is a grave danger that war will occur again." That danger was illustrated dramatically by last week's Arab-Israeli clash at Suez, which quickly...
...Virginia Woolf-cub who has earned her share of scars in the jungle war between the sexes. As her mate, a self-centered architect, Finney is not so fortunate, and seems curiously unsympathetic in helping to turn his marriage into a fray-for-all. Happily, whenever the strife skitters closer to tragedy than comedy, Director Stanley Donen takes the viewer's eye off the brawl by ushering in William Daniels and Eleanor Bron parodying a WASPish American and his shrewish wife, or Claude Dauphin, whose jet-set bore is a perfect putdown...
...silence opposition from Republicans or Southern Democrats who accuse poverty agencies of fomenting local unrest. When Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator Joseph Clark and three members of his poverty subcommittee began hearings in Mississippi last week, for example, Governor Paul Johnson accused "the four socialist-minded Senators" of fostering strife and "pitting the haves against the have-nots...
...spite of the internal strife and external harrassment, the coalition held together without a single defection, and when King, Spock, McKissick, Dellinger, Bevel, and the other principals led the march out of Central Park toward the U.N. shortly after 12 noon, they had a lot of people behind them...