Word: strife
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...power from Rhodesia's mighty Kariba Dam, and on coal from the Rhodesian mines at Wankie. In the face of economic sanctions, in which Zambia would definitely take part, the white Rhodesians would promptly cut off transport, power and coal and plunge Zambia into economic chaos and possible racial strife...
...Huguenots escaping to South Carolina from France's intolerant Sun King. But it was not until 1840 that the tide really began to flow, and it did not ebb for nearly a century. A blight in Ireland and a pogrom in Russia, a famine in Scandinavia and civil strife in South China, starvation in Sicily and crop failures in Greece, a wave of political repression in the Austro-Hungarian Empire-all fed the tide. It crested in the decade 1905-14, when more than 10,100,000 men, women and children poured into the U.S., most of them through...
...years Gamal Abdel Nasser has been fomenting all manner of uprisings, internal strife and coups d'état through out Africa and the Middle East. Last week it became clear that he had suffered a dose of his own medicine- and nearly choked on it. Spread across Cairo's government-controlled papers was news of an incredible plot to assassinate Nasser and most of his top aides, blow up the nation's major power plants and communications centers, and unleash a reign of terror that would sweep out his regime and install an entirely different...
Actually, Washington (pop. 809,700), the only major U.S. city with a majority of Negro citizens (58%), has been relatively free of racial strife. But it has areas that simmer in much the same juices as Watts or Harlem. Later, after a White House press aide tried to cover up by insisting that L.B.J. had not intended to single out the capital, Johnson told reporters: "I meant just what I said-that we ought to try to face up to these problems that we have before we have to suffer more serious problems...
...Call Me Madam Secretary." During the following twelve years-the era of New Deal reform, unprecedented labor strife and the huge demands of World War II-the tricorn hat, the patrician Boston accent and the impassioned air of the social worker became a signal for battle to opponents of the Secretary of Labor. John L. Lewis, caustic head of the United Mine Workers, called her "woozy in the head," adding that although she would make an excellent housekeeper she didn't know as much about economics "as a Hottentot does about moral...