Word: strife
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Japan was one of the few countries in the world not seriously divided by the strife between Russia and the West. In almost all other respects, however, Japan's plight was almost as desperate as that of the rest of Asia. (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Detroit, the United Automobile Workers made peace with Ford on the basis of a 7?-an-hour pay increase and a new pension plan-the first in any major auto contract (see BUSINESS). The plan gave some promise of removing insecurity, which in the end underlies all labor strife. Labor leaders and management both hailed it. But it did not affect the main issue. Across the nation, labor's fight on the Taft-Hartley Act would go on until every sentence had been challenged and bitterly tested...
...enforce the Taft-Hartley Labor Act, which he had vetoed and denounced as "unworkable," "burdensome" and "disruptive." Solemnly, last week, he pledged himself to see that the new law was "well and faithfully administered." He called on management and labor to exercise "patience and moderation." Said he: "Industrial strife at this critical time can result only in economic dislocation injurious...
...labor law in its unwilling hands. Even that looked as if it might be a good political break to Truman Democrats. They had their cake and they could eat it, too. They were freed from responsibility. It was on the Republicans; if the law brought on labor strife, or failed to curb it, it would be the G.O.P.'s doing...
...other strangers he welcomed with rambling tales of past battles, and searching hints that "the spirit" was still in strife. The enemy always turned out to be something deeper than prejudice and more dangerous than moneygrubbing; it was whatever interfered with living fully, in the moment. He was in pain much of the time. Lying on the cot in his cavelike "office" just off the gallery, he used to say that now he himself was "in retreat. I just lie here, trying to understand...