Word: strife
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...Bunche also said that the Congo crisis "has brought the most serious threat to the United Nations in its 15 years of existence." He expects trouble to continue wherever several races must exist together in one country. "Can racial strife, even an all-out racial war, be averted? ... We have time, but not much...
...shrewd Texas blonde named Debbie Drake has fashioned a never-fail device to pare tallow off overweight Americans, using three proven methods: 1) exercise, 2) diet, and 3) matrimonial strife. The device is leggy, busty, 30-year-old Debbie Drake (38½-22½-36) herself. She does calisthenics. Loyal women viewers of 58 TV stations drag themselves out of bed early enough (7:30 a.m., E.D.T.) to puff along with Debbie as she does 15 minutes of sinuous stretches and stupefying deep breathing. While the women writhe, their husbands too are profiting by the sitting-up exercises (they...
Labor disputes over what union does which jobs have produced continual strife, frequent strikes-and some blatant featherbedding. At Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., according to testimony by former Air Force Contracting Officer Euell Hodge, manifolds that are used to link up the hydraulic systems in the silo arrived from the factory already assembled. The pipefitters demanded that they be allowed to disassemble them and put them together again. Finally, they agreed to settle for "blessing" the manifolds-standing idly by the new equipment for the number of hours they would otherwise have spent assembling it-while, of course, drawing...
...green island set in a blue sea, Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, 44, the world's first and only female Prime Minister, was plunged deep in political strife...
Africa. "The Congo has been brutally torn by civil strife, political unrest and public disorder." The worsening position of the West was soon spelled out in a State Department statement suggesting a drastic policy retreat (see FOREIGN NEWS...