Word: strife
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...West. Howard insists that the movement adheres faithfully to Buchman's grand strategy-converting the world's leaders to living by the four absolutes. The movement no longer flaunts the easily refuted claims of a decade ago that labor union converts had brought industrial peace to strife-ridden cities. And M.R.A. these days soft-pedals endorsements from African leaders maintaining that the movement has saved the continent from chaos...
JAKE: To me, deep in my heart, Muriel is a never-seen objective correlative for the tortured flaming creature with burned breasts that was the Algeria of so many long agonized bloody strife-torn years of horrible rending aux abois war. And that creepy music, it made my skin crawl...
Turning to foreign policy, McCulloch praised Sen. Goldwater's announcement that he would ask former President Eisenhower to visit strife-torn South Vietnam...
Both Feisal and Nasser now knew that military victory was probably impossible in the bleak, strife-torn land where some 40,000 Egyptian troops have been propping up a wobbly republican regime against the Saudi-backed royalist tribesmen who are trying to restore the Imam Mohamed el Badr to his throne. The civil war has cost scores of thousands of Yemeni lives as well as an estimated 10,000 Egyptian casualties. It has also put off the day all Arabs dream of when they can turn their united forces against Israel...
...also something new in sex bombs in that she can act quite respectably; but her background at least has the familiar, tempestuous sound of some of the biographies of her predecessors. Her father is a farmer manque who now runs an appliance store in Pittsburgh. "Our household had much strife," Carroll says. "If I ever write an autobiography, I will start at 18. I don't like to concentrate on things that are morbid. My parents gave me nothing spiritual or ethical or moral-no set of standards by which to live." When she went to Pittsburgh...