Word: strife
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Unofficial sources estimated nearly 100 dead or wounded from the bitter weekend strife between partisans of feuding candidates in the presidential elections scheduled for June...
...Delacroix, whose Amadis de Gaule hangs in the adjacent room in the Virginia Museum, made storm and strife the very center of his painting, and became the great painter of the 19th century Romantic movement. Choosing a scene from the popular 14th century Portuguese romance of chivalry, Delacroix depicted the Good Knight Amadis de Gaule (whose exploits took him from Britain to Constantinople) as he strides, plumes tossing, to greet the Princess Olga, after he and his companions have forced the castle of treacherous Galpen. Banners wave, steel clashes on steel, the air is loud with clamor, even...
Pivot of the shift was Jordan, which in nine years has been transformed from a quiet Bedouin kingdom to a turbulent and strife-torn nation dominated by Palestine Arabs. The crisis in Jordan was misleadingly billed by Arabs and Israelis alike as strictly an "internal" Jordanian affair. It was anything but that. Jordan is an artificial country carved out of the desert, and cannot live without support from somebody. Ever since the British abdicated, King Hussein's chaotic and impoverished kingdom has been open to every neighbor's intervention. During last fall's Sinai war, neighboring Arab...
LONDON, March 28--Britain today ordered the release from exile of Archbishop Makarios in the hope of breaking the deadlock in the dispute over Cyprus. Makarios, leader of the Greek Cypriot "union with Greece" movement, will not be permitted to return immediately to the strife-torn island, however...
Bravos for "The Executive Wife" [March 4]. An executive's home (and that includes mamma) is his castle, and any executive's wife worth her title is a happy homemaker, uses her energies to relax her husband's strife-weary brain and soaks his swollen feet after he treads the corporate jungle all day. Let's hope the corporations stop infiltrating the closed family circle...