Word: strife
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...boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r"; "The paths of glory lead but to the grave"; "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen"; "Some mute inglorious Milton"; "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife"; "The noiseless tenor of their...
...more than six months, the U.S. has been trying to settle the strife in its basic industry, steel. Before their contract ran out last December, management and labor tried to solve the problem by negotiation and failed. The three branches of the Federal Government, executive, legislative and judicial, put in their hand but brought out no solution. This week 475,000 steelworkers began the third week of a strike, almost 90% of the nation's steel industry was paralyzed, and no solution was in sight...
...from the Red River delta fighting in French Indo-China lies Cambodia, southernmost of the three states (Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos) that make up the French Indo-Chinese Union. Cambodia, too, has come in for its share of strife, at the hands of some 1,800 guerrilla bandits led by an anti-French demagogue named Son Ngoc Thanh. Like Ho Chi Minh's rebels to the north, Son Ngoc Thanh's men are ostensibly non-Communist nationalists, but they are glad to accept Communist help...
...minute composition began with a spine-tingling run on the clarinet, launched into a satire of suburban domestic strife with a jazzy Greek chorus, pantomime action and modern musical effects. Lennie's libretto, in which his unhappily married couple climaxed a day of frustration by going to an escapist movie, was a little too real to be funny. One listener summed it up: "It didn't take Bernstein to show that they were mismated...
California Conquest (Columbia). Between 1825 and 1841, Mexico-ruled California was torn by internal strife, and Russia, France, England and the U.S. were trying to take over the territory. Dramatizing this little-known phase of history, California Conquest adds a dash of Technicolor and several dashes of dramatic license to the facts. Cornel Wilde is a romantic Spanish don who is in favor of U.S. annexation. To prevent the Russians from worming their way into the orange groves, he and tomboyish Teresa Wright work their way into the bandit forces of toothy, grinning Alfonso Bedoya...