Word: strife
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Nearly four years later, President Conant's tone had changed but not his message. In the Baccalaureate sermon he urged '39 to "resist the tumult of the moment, the impact of the immediate present, the corrosive atmosphere of potential strife," and develop their own talents and personalities. At the UT Mickey Rooney was featured in the title role of "Huckleberry Finn...
...awkwardly to equally black Nyasaland and white-ruled Southern Rhodesia. Last year, after Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland demanded independence, London reluctantly cut the ties among the three. Nyasaland is to gain independence in July, but is poor in resources and rich in unemployment. Southern Rhodesia is rent with racial strife because it refuses to grant equal representation to blacks, has received no independence date. Of the trio, Northern Rhodesia's future looks by far the brightest...
...Johnson's brand of political maneuvering, which plays on the emotions and ignorance of the masses, is positively revolting. It should be obvious to everyone that his lavish promises to wipe out poverty and end racial strife are merely vote-getting tactics...
Blood & Iron. A savage history of foreign wars and civil strife left the country little strength for nation building. In 1864 Paraguay blustered into the suicidal, six-year War of the Triple Alliance against Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay; out of a population of 525,000, only 220,000 survived, and only 28,000 of these were men. Again in the Chaco War of the 1930s, Paraguay took on Bolivia and won 20,000 sq. mi. of wilderness borderland-at a cost of one Paraguayan life for each square mile. Thus the prize won in 1954 by Stroessner, a veteran...
...this prickly little plot was the dissident Brooklyn chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality. Their leader was a 22-year-old Negro named Isiah Brunson, an auto mechanic who appeared in Brooklyn from South Carolina a couple of years ago and before long started stirring up civil rights strife...