Word: strife
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...Fight For Freedom Committee, have spent the greater part of their energies in swinging their already convinced quarter of the population further and further towards war. There is no reason to believe that America First will abandon its dignifying tactics. If this country is to be saved from civil strife, the interventionists will have to pay more attention to that entire 75 per cent...
Somewhere, but I knew not where-somehow, but I knew not how-by some beings, but I knew not by whom-a battle, a strife, an agony . . . was evolving. . . . I had the power, and yet had not the power, to decide it. ... I had the power, if I could raise myself to will it; and yet ... I lay inactive...
After two weeks of negotiating they reached a boiling point. Last week discussions ended. But not in strife. All was still harmony in the glass industry. Said affable veteran Harry Cook, union president: "When we got tired of looking at one another we went out and looked at something else. Then when we came back things seemed to go better." Workers won wage increases totaling $3,000,000, decided that things had gone all right...
...Henry's campaign was divided into four main drives (see map): from the south, for Beirut and for Damascus; from the east, for Palmyra and for Aleppo (and Latakia). These objectives were to be taken if possible, said the British, "with a view to obviating needless strife and bloodshed...
Economically, Flynn assured his audience that even under the worst possible circumstances, a Hitler victory over England, the United States would carry on trade with Germany without strife. There are no objections to the Nazis' trading with South America, he continued, since this country would also control a large share of South American commerce...