Word: strife
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...Jefferson, Locke's thought became something quite different. The New World brought about a new dispensation. Puritanism, despite the memories of stocks and stonings it left behind, sanctified self-reliance and selfdiscipline. In the colonies Christianity and the Enlightenment came together without strife. As Father John Courtney Murray has put it, the framers of the American Bill of Rights, unlike the men of the French Enlightenment, acted with due regard for Christian history. They "were individualists, but not to the point of ignoring the social nature...
What most students still do not realize, however, is that PBH is not universally loved in all the areas where its volunteers work. Indeed, the volunteers themselves are often unaware of any strife between agency heads and PBH officers that may have occurred before a program has finally been implemented...
What the opera does center on is the priest's personal dilemma, and much of the performance's success came from Gregory Sandow's imposing portrayal of this character. Yet because the issue which created this personal strife is so unimportant to the libretto, the priest cannot be a complete dramatic character. It is not the specific question of his allegiance which seems to oppress him--he is simply burdened by a gloom which envelopes all the characters. The tone of continual tension denies his greatest dramatic acts any major significance: his curse, for instance, simply cries...
...worse. Last year Brazil imported $100 million more than it could pay for with exports. Even if it imports nothing this year, it will still owe international creditors $800 million. New foreign capital dwindled from $266 million in 1961 to $62 million last year, frightened off by expropriations, political strife, and a restrictive remittance-of-profits bill. Brazil's gross national product, which averaged 7% growth a year for five years, slowed to an estimated 3.5% in 1962, which means barely keeping ahead of Brazil's 3.1% growth of population...
...fall into the trap of worldwide Communism. The basic tactics of worldwide Communism is to divide and to conquer. It is to set free nation against free nation, and within the nation, to set brother against brother. Its objective in the United States is to promote tension, turmoil, strife, and to bring about misunderstanding and mistrust...