Word: strife
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...college organizations invited are expected to participate in the affair not only from the standpoint of sponsorship, but in the open forum discussion following the formal debating. Council officers said yesterday that they confidently expected a hot verbal strife to arise if both the Student Union and the Young Independents (formerly Young Conservatives) are in attendance...
...known brother of the angle and Prime Minister. His method is to get things done by businesslike steps. First, he averted European war by Czechoslovak dismemberment. Second, he won a vote of confidence on this act last week, 366 to 144, in the House of Commons. Third, he averted strife in his Conservative Party by postponing indefinitely the annual Party Conference which was to have been held last week. And fourth, the Prime Minister went fishing in the River Tweed...
This year there has been talk of ending the long strife, and the boys on Mount Vernon Street have been dickering for peace. The result was the receipt of four passes to the games, with the implied implication that the war was over...
...Sunday the Pope walked alone out of his summer villa at Castel Gandolfo (something he had never done before), delivered a vigorous impromptu address to missionary students summering nearby. Said he: "Beware of exaggerated nationalism as of a real curse. ... It is a real curse of divisions, of strife almost amounting...
Perilous to any new union is its arrival at the armchair stage, when leaders bred in strife must simultaneously run a going concern and keep their restive rank & file content. Last week the leaders...