Word: strife
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Liturgy, a source of religious strife during the Reformation, is today a force for Christian unity. Liturgical reform is bringing Catholic worship closer to Protestant practices. At the same time, some U.S. Protestant and Episcopal churches have introduced into worship practices once considered "popish," such as incense and eucharistic vestments at Holy Communion. Long before Protestants and Catholics succeed in resolving their doctrinal conflicts, they may find that the old, divisive differences in forms of worship have already vanished...
...African Conference at Addis Ababa last May, Ben Bella remarked: "To free Africa, we must all be prepared to die a little." Ben Bella's people, sick of strife, would first like to live a little...
Instead, for more than 1,500 years, a strife-ridden but never-quite-failing balance was maintained among China, India, the Roman-European West, and at the pivot point-the Middle East. All four had cultural traditions of their own; but technologies, crops, philosophies, military methods and art forms were traded back and forth, along with epidemic disease. Invasions of horse-riding nomads from the steppes were another recurring plague; but even the greatest barbarian onslaught, the Mongol explosion of the 13th century, was finally fought off or absorbed...
...other cities, too, in Charleston, S.C., Savannah, Ga., Gadsden, Ala., racial strife receded as whites and Ne groes tried to resolve their conflicts at negotiating tables instead of in the streets. The ugliest racial disorders of the week, ironically, occurred in New York, the great melting pot, a city of minorities, a city that years ago enacted laws forbidding discrimination in housing and employment. Negro demonstrators protesting job discrimination in the construction industry marched and picketed, knelt in the mud at construction sites, sat in front of bulldozers, singing
...other millions in the U.S. during the Depression 1930s, Ford was just a four-letter word. As the past glories of mercurial old Henry and his cantankerous Model T faded, the great tinkerer ebbed into senility and the empire he created was rent by skull-smashing labor strife and long-knifed infighting among executives for shreds of power...