Word: strife
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...would sign. Disorganized by Ortiz' illness and frightened for Argentina's future, the Radicals are now split into two camps, one led by onetime President Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear favoring cooperation with the Conservatives. Even Radicals are beginning to fear that unless Argentina ends the political strife which has weakened her for two generations, she will commit national harakiri...
...dealing with labor strife, almost from the start, Madam Secretary gave her critics their best excuse for attacking her. To Welfare Worker Perkins, labor was the emaciated wife of a brutal husband, and Ma Perkins was the community nurse rushing to the rescue. She salved labor's hurts. She squashed her tricorn hat down on her head and shook her finger at big, bullying business. She tried to settle the General Motors sit-down strike in 1937 with Biblical injunctions. When she failed to get an agreement, she flew into womanly fury...
...this same pregnant strife the United States doubtless will be led, by undeniable interests and aroused national sympathies, to play a part, to cast aside the policy of isolation which befitted her infancy, and to recognize that . . . now to take her share of the travail of Europe is but to assume an inevitable task ... in the work of upholding the common interests of civilization...
...live a life of strife...
...Religious strife in Mexico...