Word: strife
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...about our battlefront and foreign affairs coverage, and about the correspondents responsible for it. Now, after four long years away, the spotlight has shifted to U.S. affairs-to the problems of returning G.I.s, the acute shortage of housing, the steel strikes, and the many other phases of current industrial strife. The world is watching to see how the U.S. handles these problems, and TIME is fully prepared to cover them-from the national, not the Ivory Tower, point of view...
...moved with ease among the statesmen of the world. And, though he was not a politician's idea of a politician, he had done an even better job of governing his country. He had taken a nation of two cultures, a land often torn by racial strife, and held it together, for its own good...
...greatest trials came in the conscription crisis of 1944. Mackenzie King is thoroughly Scotch-English in temperament. He speaks but the poorest French and has little fondness for French Canadians as such. But he is well aware of the need for unity in a country long racked by sectional strife between its 3,500,000 French and the rest of Canada. He has always given French Canada what he considers fair and just treatment. When he was forced to impose military conscription, because of the soldier shortage in October 1944, he was squarely on the horns of a dilemma...
...over, but peace was only the absence of war. Over Europe lay the heavy hand of political turmoil and hunger, the unfathomable problems of reconstruction and reparations. The Middle East was torn with strife, Asia racked by revolt. Even the fortunate Western Hemisphere contained some of the tightest dictatorships in modern history...
...eight years the students and their professors, who trekked from Peiping. Tientsin and other northern cities, had lived a lean and patient life in Kunming. When V-J day brought not peace but internal strife, they stirred restlessly...