Word: strife
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...branch of the government. A people at war should not be disturbed with baseless charges against men holding instrumental positions in public life. The Dies Committee, ruled by a Chairman who disregards objections from fellow committee members, and lashes out at all critics, can create nothing but strife and disunity in the nation...
...going great guns, an Army-Navy E flag floated over his neat, compact factory, his employes had just surprised their tough-guy boss with a gold trophy and a diamond-studded pin to show their "friendship and esteem [in] recognition of 38 years of continuous leadership unmarred by labor strife or serious dispute." Chicagoans chuckled, too, over the latest story of the famed Tilt temper. In a purple rage because his Packard was hard to start one cold Sunday morning, Art jumped out of the car, grabbed a wrench, roared a sailorful of oaths as he battered off a headlight...
That Darlan was at the same time making use of his powers to assure his own future position in North Africa was beyond question. Needed by the Americans, able to quell Vichy resistance in Africa or unleash civil strife which would tie Eisenhower's troops down to far-flung police work, the shrewd Admiral was proving a serious and unexpected annoyance...
...long months of the war internecine strife between the R.A.F. on the one hand and the Army & Navy on the other had confused the British war effort, much as the conflict between the military and naval arms has confused the U.S. effort (see P. 67). The R.A.F., a separate and autonomous command, preferred to direct its own operations...
...another, or else a bomb or tools in the hands of fast-working coolies would wash the rails away. The Jap seized whole provinces, and found his kind of peace in the towns where he made his headquarters. But where he had to spread thin he found endless strife and the sniping of the guerrilla. There were not enough soldiers in the Japanese Army to hold the tides over which the enemy had raised his flag...