Word: strife
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...international aspect of the Chinese problem unfortunately has become somewhat clouded by demands for internal reform. Desirable as such reform may be, its importance is but secondary to the issue of civil strife now engulfing the land, and the two issues are as impossible of synchronization as it would be to alter the structural design of a house while the same was being consumed by fire...
Heated sectional strife pivoting around N.S.A.'s precise place in partisan politics broke out at several meetings, but the conference adjourned without definitely settling the problem...
...Storm & Strife. Actually, the President decided more than a month ago that Landis would have to go. Harry Truman was concerned over the increasing friction in CAB, and over the dissatisfaction throughout the Administration with the way CAB was doing its job (TIME, March 17). The President talked it over with most of his top advisers. All admired Jim Landis' legal abilities and his fair-mindedness, but all had pet peeves. From almost every side came stories about Landis' irascibility and inability to get along with people...
...surprising, then, that Harvard, with its own little corps of militia men, acquired the sobriquet of "military" when the strife was at last ever. For a while the "mercury" militia still drilled on the Common or on the Delta, where Memorial Hall now stands, and Cambridge was for a while thought of as a very warlike community. The loyalists on Tory Row, now Brattle Street, had left hurriedly for Canada, and the Yankee merchants who moved into the fine old houses established a standard of luxury that showed a new, rich era had indeed arrived. One party of Colonel Henry...
...their main purpose, the delegates generated more strife than peace. When little Uruguay tried to discard the old aggressive pride of nations, others pounced on her furiously. It was proposed that Spanish be made an official UNESCO language, which would complicate proceedings considerably. Uruguay tried to be peaceable, voted against the proposal. The other Spanish-speaking countries forced the conference to term "official" the languages of all UNESCO members...