Word: strife
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...life in these pages. Her dissolute husband, her lover Fernando, her nephew Lauriano, are specimens in the fine art of re-creating historical characters. The personal histories of this quartet, and that of Don Gerardo Baker, are fascinatingly unfolded against the grim pageant of Naples torn by civil strife...
...gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the Graver had a strife With Nature to outdo the life...
...Party in annual conference commended the Government's policy of non-intervention in Spain, Leader Herbert Morrison of the London County Council attacked non-intervention at home, snorted: "Sir Oswald Mosley's demonstration was consciously, deliberately and mischievously organized for the purpose of stimulating violence and racial strife in London. That was obvious to everybody long in advance and the Government had ample time and justification for preventing the thing. If the Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, had been firm and clear, he would have acted in time...
...among us all revolutions and social and economic upheavals are mere "incidents") a great deal depends upon the number of people who have been trained to keep their mental powder dry, oven when all around them it rains oratorical cats and dogs. For when the clouds of debate and strife shall have been dispersed by the inevitable flow of fresh commonsense, it is these boys of the Great Aloofness who will have to pick up the pieces and start the work of reconstruction. I don't want to get too involved in my flowery tirade, but those who have ears...
...South China after three months of the most ferocious verbal strife between the Nanking Government and Kwangsi Province, with a formal military ultimatum being issued every few days by Premier Chiang to the Kwangsi generals or vice versa, sudden peace came this week. Instead of Generalissimo Chiang arriving in Canton with overwhelming force to master Kwangsi, he persuaded Kwangsi General Li Tsung-Jen to assume the office of Pacification Commissioner of Kwangsi under instructions from Nanking to pacify himself thoroughly and send no more ultimatums. Only logical assumption was that Li had finally got out of Chiang the bribe running...