Word: strife
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There comes a time in an Ensign's life. When he would be done with slide-rule strife...
...Civil strife racked the nation. Between 1921 and 1929 three spectacular attempts were made on the King's life. In 1924 the country had 200 political assassinations. Then, in 1934, Boris approved a military coup that suppressed the constitution, dissolved the Sobranye, abolished political parties. A year later he installed himself as dictator, began to play power politics...
...strove with none. I always hated strife...
...days after Roosevelt spoke, worried Pope Pius XII, addressing 25,000 workmen brought to Vatican City from all parts of Italy, warned: "Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord." He decried anti-religious propaganda among the people, inveighed against labor-employer strife, condemned "social" revolution as "a mere show incapable of realization in fact." More than ever it was apparent that the hope for the underground, and for all Italian democrats, lies first in unconditional surrender, followed by military occupation. After that, if the Allies are wiser than they were in North...
Tiny Bermuda put in a bid for a big job last week. The House of Assembly voted to investigate the possibilities of making the islands the New Geneva of the postwar world, where international conferences could be held in an atmosphere remote from national strife. Author of the suggestion was Legislative Councilor F. Goodwin Gosling, who also submitted the idea to Britain...