Word: strife
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...storm & strife of what Mexicans still refer to as "the revolution"-a confused and confusing mixture of banditry, adobe-hut Marxism, nationalism and agrarian reform which has been seething for 30 years-rose three great revolutionary artists. Their lurid propaganda paintings (reaching Mexico's illiterate peons far more effectively than printed words) covered walls from Nuevo Leon to Yucatan and revived the art of fresco painting on a scale unequaled since the Italian Renaissance. The three: stocky, effusive Diego Rivera; grim, brooding José Clemente Orozco; pallid, green-eyed, conspiratorial David Alfaro Siquieros...
...Fight for Freedom "must and will" be fought simultaneously on two fronts: abroad against soul-cramping fascism, at home against poverty and reaction. This war, they urge, is not a barrier against social progress, but a path to it. Paraphrasing Herbert Croly, they hail the Promise of American Strife...
...feel a desire to speak words of good will to you, as chief of the Italian nation, across what seems to be a swiftly widening gulf. . . . We can, no doubt, inflict grievous injuries upon one another and maul each other cruelly and darken the Mediterranean with our strife. If you so decree, it must be so. But I declare that I have never been the enemy of Italian greatness, nor ever at heart the foe of the Italian lawgiver. . . . Down the ages, above all other calls, comes the cry that the joint heirs of Latin and Christian civilization must...
...history of Unification reads like a machine-age edition of Pilgrim's Progress. The city had to find ways & means of setting aside contracts with IRT and BMT (good until 1967, 1969), raising money enough to buy out private interests. After nearly 20 years of litigation, haggling, interdepartmental strife, the city last year bought a weakened BMT, a bankrupt IRT. Last June-36 years after the opening of Manhattan's IRT subway-she merged them with her own Independent...
...children can serve no useful purpose to the American way of life. To depict a man in the character of a German hurling insults at our American citizenry could only serve a god of hatred, m contrast to our God of Love. It would tend to stir up strife and resentment, resulting in possible attack upon some innocent American citizens of German descent...