Word: strife
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...think that House loyalty should stand before college ties and even advance the thesis that Harvard should follow the English tradition and solicit separate endowments. (although Cambridge and Oxford are now getting gifts to the University) Most agree that furthering this trend would break up the college. Hence the strife over what records to field in the houses. Parsons reassuringly adds since faculty interest centers on graduate research, this trend can't go too far until graduate students are in the Houses: only then will faculty interest center on the Houses...
...Robert R. Sears, Professor of Education and Child Psychology, the Laboratory is staffed with psychologists, anthropologists, and educators. Students use the Laboratory for research projects, and undergraduates from the College's Psychology and Social Relations Departments have done honor these there. This is one way in which the strife between educators is being lessened...
...Koje, the bleak and bloody island where the U.N. holds 130,000-odd Chinese and North Korean prisoners of war, strife between Communist and anti-Communist factions is constant, relentless and apparently uncontrollable. Recently, among the North Koreans in Compound 93, the anti-Reds got the upper hand, and the enclosure was suddenly converted to freedom. Work parties from 93 began to sing South Korean songs and wave homemade R.O.K. flags as they were marched to & from their jobs...
...Britain, political activity was stilled and party strife suspended at a moment when Parliament was plunging headlong toward a serious split over foreign policy, its first since 1940. The news postponed a critical struggle for power within the Labor Party, and rescued Winston Churchill from a situation that was causing him real concern. The issue which the House of Commons debated was whether Britain should stand beside the U.S. in whatever new perils may come in Asia. Tangled in that issue was a latent mistrust of the U.S., a concern over Britain's role of junior partner...
...majority in the House of Commons. (George III was the last monarch to summon and dismiss ministries at will.) Elizabeth's power to grant or refuse a dissolution of Parliament is real enough, but she would use it independently only in extraordinary circumstances-e.g., if death or strife hopelessly entangled the wheels of party government...