Word: strife
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...most frightening news pictures of the year have come not from the "strife-torn" Congo, but from the cultural capital of the American South. The good women of New Orkans, who so fear four small girls that they must shout obscenities at those who fear ignorance more, may well turn more stomachs and cause more alarm than any massaore at Sharpeville...
...Lumumba appealed to the Russians for planes and technicians, Gizenga asked the ambassador for arms and volunteers from China. Chen cautiously offered cash and advice instead, as his Peking colleagues have done in Guinea, Ghana and Morocco. For, though the Red Chinese might be prepared to stir up real strife later, their present limited goal in Africa seems to be quiet infiltration behind the scenes, to gain allies for Peking's struggle for world recognition...
...kept it from being blown up and quarried for stone like many another great church. In 1794 the lead roof was stripped to make bullets, and during the liberation of France in World War II six Nazis used its north tower as a snipers' nest. War and religious strife have broken the hands and heads of saints, smashed panes of irreplaceable glass. Even worse wreckers were the 19th century restorers who plastered the apse with inanities-candelabra that cast no light, bas-reliefs that conceal the beauties of the structure. Yet today Chartres again stands serene, outcropping grass...
...U.A.W., driving hard for the Democrats, has contributed strategists, speech-writers and great financial support to Swainson. And in a state where memories of the skull-cracking industrial disputes of the '30s are still vivid, union politicians are not above fanning class strife. Says an A.F.L.-C.I.O. pamphlet circulating in Michigan: "The people voting against you are the bankers, the merchants, the car dealers, the big industries, the utilities-all the fat cats who make money whether you have...
...Gaulle is the only hope in Algeria. If he fails, there will be anarchy in France and continuing strife in Algeria. After de Gaulle would come the deluge...