Word: strife
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There was an argument of sorts to be made for Louis Johnson. He had knocked heads together and brought actual unification into the strife-torn Department of Defense. His economy program had been strictly in line with the policy laid down by the President...
Reconstructed Boer. Born a British subject in the old Cape Colony, Smuts was too busy with his father's fields and herds to learn to read until he was twelve. At 21, he won a scholarship to Cambridge University. When he returned to South Africa, he found growing strife between Briton and Boer. Good Boer Smuts renounced his British citizenship...
...early 20s, Andre Kostelanetz never allowed a Tin Pan Alley tune to get into his rigidly classical musical diet. Born in St. Petersburg 49 years ago, he studied piano at the conservatory, became an assistant conductor at the Mariinsky Theater before he was 20. But during the civil strife of the early '20s, Kostelanetz grew restless...
...earl, and a prattling slave girl-played by plump-cheeked young (20) French Starlet Cecile Aubry as if she were a fugitive from Little Women. Power's odyssey through Asia with a stuffy fellow exile (British Actor Jack Hawkins) is sandwiched between long, talky sequences picturing Norman-Saxon strife in England. And from time to time the film wanders off on little verbal jags to point up its sentimental moral: that it's a jolly fine thing to be an Englishman...
...against illness in the Burma jungles. During the Japanese war, he organized a front-line medical service for U.S., British and Chinese troops, trekked out of Burma with U.S. General Joseph Stilwell, marched back again when the Japanese were driven out. During the country's fierce postwar civil strife, he continued to operate his hospital at Namkham. Last September rebel forces took Namkham. Government troops eventually drove them out. Thakin Nu's government said it suspected that the American doctor had helped some of the rebels to escape...