Word: strife
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...blanketed San Francisco with $10 million worth of gadgets on top of Cadillacs, hotels and barns, at airports, inside train stations and cramped hotel corridors. But unlike the strife-spiced Chicago convention, the show itself failed to measure up to the expensive, flexible coverage accorded it. Said CBS's Convention Boss Sig Mickelson: "The Democratic Convention was hard news; the Republican Convention is soft news...
...entirely a new Democratic line. In 1948, Harry Truman called the Republican Party the unwitting ally of U.S. Communists, asserted that the Reds wanted a Republican Administration "because they think that its reactionary policies will lead to the confusion and strife on which Communism thrives...
...argue on of gods, not God, And might all strife resign, If only I could find in yours, What you reject in mine...
During the strife-torn 1870s in Paris, a passing proletarian stopped by a sidewalk table at the Café de la Paix to jeer at an elderly champagne-sipper: "You! We didn't get you in '48, but we won't miss in the next revolution." Last week the revolution finally engulfed the Café de la Paix. After 86 years as a bastion of fashion (and fancy prices), the famed restaurant turned over one-eighth of its floor space to an American-style snack bar. Georges Marcovich, the café's Manager of External Relations...
...Strife breeds more strife, violence produces more violence, and agitation causes trouble where none would otherwise exist. I cannot please you today because I don't think the course of action you suggest is in the interests of Tennessee...