Word: strife
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...account also states that Pound reported no signs of strife or disintegration among the leaders or the rank-and-file of the Kuomintang. The only instances of poor morale which Pound discovered were a few student strikes...
...pulled the rug out from under Samuel Wolchok, boss of the strife-torn Retail, Wholesale & Department Store Union, and ordered the C.I.O.'s powerful Amalgamated Clothing Workers to take over Wolchok's territory...
What did the doings at the Palais de Chaillot add up to? The easy and cynical answer was: $39 million for more talk. Yet the framework, the organizational experience and the high goals of the U.N. had survived for another strife-torn year. The struggle for the world was being conducted mostly in arenas outside the U.N., but the U.N. remained the one place where the world's opinion of that struggle could be focused. And no one had yet advanced a resolution to the effect that world opinion was negligible...
...Dart: "These intelligent, energetic, erect and delicately-proportioned little people were as competent as any other primitive human group in cavern life made comfortable by the use of fire, in the employment of long bones as lethal weapons, in the cunning and courage of the chase and in internecine strife...
They saw no skeletons, wicked priests, musclebound heroes, firing squads or snarling prostitutes-none of the familiar Orozco trademarks. The mural looked more like a blueprint for a distillery than social propaganda. Orozco had gone abstract with a vengeance, using red streaks and dashes to represent strife, black for death, white for purity and blue for triumph. An eagle and a snake, which also appear in Mexico's flag, dimly inhabited the bright chaos. Struggling up past them into the blue was a pair of lonely human legs. To reflect the sunlight, Orozco had embedded bits of glass into...