Word: strife
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Colombia's three-year undeclared civil war reached a new pitch of ferocity. Heretofore, most of the fighting had been confined to the countryside, where Conservative troops and police fought pitched battles against "bandits," i.e., Liberal guerrillas. Last week the capital city of Bogotá was torn with strife...
...Winston Churchill made another-and belated-effort to do business with Mohammed Mossadegh, the wily, weepy old man of Iran. London and Washington are now much less worried by the loss of Iranian oil (mostly made up from other Middle East sources) than by the increasing danger that Iran, strife-racked, almost bankrupt, and near chaos, will topple into the Red fold. The U.S.-British offer, which had obviously cost the U.S. much diplomatic sweat and the British a lot of pride...
...party rules to be submitted to the Congress reveal no major shakeup, but nevertheless contain some interesting changes (see below). They suggest that Stalin is trying to tidy and tighten up the party, possibly to avoid, for a hand-picked successor, the murderous party strife which surrounded his own successsion to Lenin, thus perpetuate his power beyond death...
Hope rose last week for a truce in Colombia's bitter religious strife. A Colombian Catholic, José Maria Chaves, 29, now teaching at Queens College, New York, and worried about anti-Protestant violence in his homeland, suggested a formula for peace. Its gist: Protestants should agree to a missionary quota, stop publicizing persecution unless new attacks occur, limit preaching to churches, avoid attacking Catholic dogmas and priests. The Roman Catholic Church and the pro-Catholic government should agree to denounce and punish anti-Protestant assaults, guarantee freedom of worship...
...friends, more important than winning the election is governing the nation . . . When the tumult and the shouting die, when the bands are gone and the lights are dimmed, there is the stark reality of responsibility in an hour of history haunted with those gaunt, grim specters of strife, dissension and materialism at home, and ruthless, inscrutable and hostile power abroad...