Word: strife
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...first Negroes to earn a Navy commission. After getting a master's degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota, he was hired by the Minneapolis Tribune as a copyreader, finally argued his way into a reporting job. The Tribune sent Rowan-long before racial strife was top news-into the South to see how much things had progressed for the Negro since Rowan was a boy. Rowan found that not much had changed. With typical pungency, he wrote: "You do not expose racial hatred and social and economic injustices any more than you expose a fresh dunghill...
...partition of India into two independent nations unleashed such bitter religious strife between Moslem and Hindu that the subcontinent nearly drowned in blood. More than 100,000 people were killed and 12 million left homeless in an orgy of butchery, rape and destruction. Last week the horrible memories of those ugly days came back to India as mobs ran loose in Kashmir, East Pakistan and West Bengal...
...even if Home is able to unify his party and recast its image, the Conservatives will have a rough go of it in next year's election. For the first time in twelve years, Labor will go to the polls unhampered by intra-party strife. Since he took over the leadership after Hugh Gaitskell's death, Harold Wilson has maneuvered to unite a party bitterly split on the question of succession. Last month, at the Labor convention in Scarborough, he succeeded. His keynote address was exuberantly acclaimed by delegates, and his persistent rival, Deputy Leader George Brown, gave...
Lubell's explanation: with the easing of cold war tensions, the public now views civil rights strife rather than the struggle with the Soviets as the U.S.'s No. 1 political issue. "Interviews in five Eastern states,* where Kennedy should be at his strongest," wrote Lubell, "show him losing a tenth of his 1960 support-mainly because 'he gives in too much to the Negro...
...last In these modern, troubled times, when the Conservatives are racked with party strife and the President of the United States reads that charlatan Ian Fleming as bed-time entertainment, a truly fine mystery has been published. There can be little doubt that with The Report Mr. Denning has attained the skill of G.K. Chesterton. And Chesterton was a man who could tell a tale in the old style...