Word: strife
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...defense took over. Fuchs's attorney sketched Fuchs's youth in Germany, "among the smoldering fires of political struggles and strife . . ." Once, when the attorney referred to what Fuchs had called his "controlled schizophrenia" (by which, Fuchs had insisted, one-half of his mind was Communist, the other half supposedly loyal to Britain), Lord Goddard snapped: "I cannot understand all this metaphysical talk, and I don't know that I should...
...Duff. Last week Duff summoned the more sympathetic of the state's 67 county chairmen to Hershey to pick a slate. Fifty-one of them or their representatives showed up. But many of them, more interested in patronage than principle, obviously preferred Cooke to bitter intraparty strife...
...whole thing, Columnist Hearst scratched back at Columnist March: "Friends will be pleased and amazed to learn that Newsgal Evelyn Peyton Gordon at long last is expecting." No one was more amazed than fortyish, married and childless Evie; she was too mad even to scratch back. The sound of strife on Washington's back fence died away. Titillated readers of the society columns would have to go to the right cocktail parties to find out that the stork was orbiting over neither of the contestants...
...West's answer to Vishinsky. It was a sweeping Anglo-American resolution on "Essentials of Peace." Among other things, its twelve points would pledge all U.N. members not to use force or the threat of force in ways contrary to the U.N. charter; to refrain from fomenting civil strife in other countries; to carry out international agreements in good faith; to promote human rights; to grant free access to U.N. agencies; to exercise restraint in the use of the U.N. veto; to drop barriers which prevent a free exchange of information; to give up a measure of national sovereignty...
...army support. Llovera Páez, No. 3 man, has been an uncertain balance of power-but not a power in himself. In the scramble for sides, several hundred officers have been quietly jailed. The strategy of A.D. leaders is to keep building up strength until army strife gives them a wide-open chance to take over the government...