Word: strife
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...country, and hardly anyone still believes in the use of violence, except a few backwoods sheriffs and chili-parlor hoodlums. Police Commissioner Claude Armour of Memphis, a city with an excellent integration record, puts it this way: "I had to face the decision whether we were to have fear, strife and bloodshed, or whether we were to enforce the law. I decided we would enforce the law and have peace, and that's what we have done...
...placed little emphasis on either racial strife or Goldwaterism to explain recent successes and near-misses of Republicans in the South. "Younger citizens are not happy with the many jaded and unimaginative but self-perpetuating Democrat politicians, these 'eternal incumbants,'" he said...
...LOVED CHILDREN, by Christina Stead. This singularly raw novel of family life and strife was considered too intemperate when it was first published in 1940. Now, countless case studies later, Miss Stead's distillation of the warfare between neurotic parents rings terrifyingly true...
...Somehow, the point of your essay on Asian hate and discrimination completely escapes me. Despite feeble disclaimers, it smacks of the smug American, caught again in embarrassing racial strife, chortling defensively: "Ah ha! You see, those sanctimonious Asians are just as ugly, prejudiced and hateful as we Americans are!" One wonders whether the American Negro of Selma, Ala., would fully agree with your sweeping judgment that "America's problems are subject to a system of social and legal redress." At best it has been a spotty "system," hundreds of years in coming. There is little pride, and small comfort...
When asked if the struggle between Negroes and whites would increase when educated Negroes start competing for skilled jobs, Graham said, "It's a hazard. There is tremendous racial strife in Chicago because of this...