Word: strife
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Since most of them could tell a hawk from a handsaw, most picked Russia (an Aquarian) as the new No. 1 European power. For the U.S. (another Aquarian), they saw the No. 1 Western Hemispheric spot, all mixed up by an annoying wave of accidents, sex poaching, labor strife, inflation and political ferment, caused by the unfortunate fact that Uranus is moving through the sign of Gemini...
...Strife Begins with 90. In Long Island City, irate Fishmonger Michael Stringnano tried to throttle a housewife when she paid 90 pennies for a 90? fish, meekly confessed: "I must have lost my head...
...impatient with the chessboard's strategic subtleties. Life had used him roughly from the first, had given him callouses where other men would have had scars. Born 65 years ago to bitter poverty in Winsford, a Somerset village, Ernie Bevin got an early introduction to strife and independence...
...Chungking and all China there was double reason to celebrate. In the cliffside capital, the nation's main political groups had successfully ended a historic conference. After nearly 20 years of civil strife, the way was open at last for peaceful cooperation within a common frame of government, for rebuilding...
Should the C.I.O. auto workers have a closed shop? No, said Justice Rand: "[This] would subject the company's interest in individual employes ... to strife within the union and between them and the union. . . . [It] would deny the individual Canadian the right to seek work independently of . . . any organized group . . . [and] would place his economic life at the mercy . . . of an uncontrolled and here an unmatured group...