Word: strife
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...when he says that North Viet Nam is ready to continue guerrilla warfare in the South "for 20, even 30 years if need be." Were the U.S. to grow irresolute in the face of such perseverance, Johnson said, "the forces of chaos would scent vic tory, and decades of strife and aggression would stretch endlessly before us." For the U.S., declared the President, the choice is clear. "We shall stay the course...
...official and crisscross the land until 1927, when she settled down in the U.S. to spin her impressions into novels, first Oil for the Lamps of China, a 1933 bestseller and 1935 movie, followed by six others (The Innocent Dreamers) centered in Asia and permeated with foreboding of endless strife because of the clash of races and cultures; of cancer; in Oakland, Calif...
...happened, Rinfret's relations with Edie soured along with his own views of the U.S. economy. Three months ago, Rinfret left Edie amid rumors of an abrasive management struggle. Now head of a new partnership, Rinfret-Boston Associates, he denies the strife stories, says he was simply eager to "have my own operation...
...conviction that the North can be battered into some kind of submission--as the President apparently believes--is sheer folly. The Soviet Union and a strife-torn Communist China will not permit even the appearance of this to occur. And if Johnson were fortunate enough to force the North Vietnamese to cut drastically their aid to the NLF, there is no reason to believe that the Viet Cong insurrection could be quelled to the point where a civilian regime could effectively govern the South...
This practical, moralistic code has encountered many rival teachings, chief among them mystical Taoism, which holds that Tao, or the Way, knows no distinction between big and small, high and low, good and bad. Through wu wei, meaning "action by inaction," man can achieve tranquillity in the midst of strife. As the sage Lao Tzu expressed...