Word: strife
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State of a Nation. France was resistant and revengeful. But she was also weak. Four years of German rule and civil strife had sickened...
...sovereign in exile, 43-year-old King George of Greece, sheltered by Britain but unwanted by his people, Winston Churchill had no mention. Of the divided Greeks themselves he complained that one faction had "murdered" a British officer, and added: "It is painful to see [their] confusion and internecine strife. . . . Greek killing Greek with munitions sent to them for killing Germans...
...episode of Earl Warren's past remembered most unfavorably on the West Coast is his handling of the celebrated Point Lobos case. In 1936, at the height of West Coast labor strife, the chief engineer of the freighter Point Lobos was stabbed and beaten to death in his cabin, while the ship lay at an Alameda dock...
...exhausted armies lunged feebly at each other, Lord Curzon, on behalf of the Supreme Council of the Allied Powers, suggested a mutually satisfactory line of demarcation, resolving as best it could the impossible ethnographic interming-lings left over after 1,000 years of strife. Neither side would listen. In the end the Poles were able to dictate a peace at Riga in 1921, establishing an eastern frontier which lasted until 1939 and the fourth partition of Poland...
...pasture, it is now and forever shall be known as the "Yard." Through the rooms in the Halls (not dorms, please) the cry of Rheinhardt has echoed for years. In "them good old days" it was "Rheinhardt" that signified "riot" to the lowly Freshmen Yardlings, and many were the strife brought on by that call to arms, strife that often carried over to the Square and wreaked destruction on the fair city of Cambridge...