Word: strife
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...preparation for the storm, of civil strife gathering around the Gruaer case, the British last week strung barbed wire through Jerusalem, ordered the evacuation of Rehavia, the city's best residential district. The shock of the evacuation notices spread consternation through the Jewish community. When she got her notice, Mrs. Rifka Benjamin, a 65-year-old Hungarian widow, fell dead...
...spite of the impending strife, Jews from Europe were still trying to find homes in Palestine. Last week 650 refugees, packed on a schooner off Haifa, hurled bottles and belaying pins at 100 British soldiers who boarded the ship to prevent illegal immigration...
...Palestine for five years, pending a final settlement. The five-year clause would be an invitation to both Jews and Arabs to continue the struggle for advantage during the interim period. The fact that the proposed partition had no definite boundaries would almost certainly be a further incentive to strife. This week in London both Jews and Arabs turned down the British plan...
Anxiously the 15 A.F.L. elders said: "An era of good feeling is setting in. Industrial strife is definitely on the wane. . . . Demands for [labor] legislation have gained support because of the wave of strikes . . . . We wish to emphasize that the industrial disturbances of 1946 were . . . a passing phenomenon...
...millions was slowly dying in the arms of its desperate allies. By analyzing the forces that are now out of control, the authors of this majority opinion on the Chinese crisis have thrown light on past American mistakes. The gravity of these errors is evidenced by the civil strife in China today, an end product of the American ignorance or defiance of the revolutionary surge that sweeps the backward East to violence...