Word: strife
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Across the land, there were other storm warnings and winds of another kind. As industrial strife in the automotive industry rose to gale force, it focused the nation's attention on Detroit...
...escort the Communist leader. Mao hugged his little daughter, kissed his young wife goodbye with the quiet desperation of a man going to be executed. Then he climbed aboard for the first plane ride of his 52 years, his first meeting with the Generalissimo in two decades of civil strife...
...world politics, which the U.S. would now have to play to the hilt, would not be easy. Peace had merely sharpened the questions which had lain dormant in the smoke of battle. The political problems of the Far East, thrown into focus by internal strife in China (see FOREIGN NEWS), suddenly seemed to rear higher than the old problems of Europe. But Europe's woes were still there, too, stirred by hunger and unrest...
There is a natural drama in the making of steel--in the forging of iron and in the construction of huge blast furnaces--and MGM has taken this industrial drama, fused it with a bitter strife between labor and capital, added a touch of intra-family warfare, and come up with an effective, if overlong, adaptation of Marcia Davenport's best-seller, "The Valley of Decision...
Pittsburgh is the chosen scene of industrial empire and industrial strife; the steel-made fortune of the Scott family is cast together with the steel-made poverty of ironworker Pat Rafferty and family. The rise of Scott-hating Rafferty's daughter Mary as a maidservant in the Scott home, eventually to marry into the family, serves to weave the two sides of the railroad track into one history...