Word: strife
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...forces against the aggressor. Today, if the Russians are right, an identical situation has arisen, and again Britain holds the key to European peace. A positive statement of her policy would almost surely postpone another large-scale War until a new system of alliances has formed. There will be strife in the near future only if France persuades her allies to cooperate in a preventive war, in the hope of sparing Europe certain disaster in the distant future...
...have a rendezvous with life. Far down the beckoning years Are times of peace and times of strife, Of laughter and of tears, Times of sorrow, times of joy, Times when shadows fall. Life seems all gold without alloy Or shrouded with a pall. While you, you're farther down the years. Can you now guide me through the strife? You've known life's pleasures, known its fears, But I've a rendezvous with life...
...affected industries, have all the authority of substantive law. In every city, town and hamlet NRA's viceroys, the code authorities, govern as best they can. The 1,400 mills of the cotton textile industry, employing half a million workers, which for years had known no law but strife, now all obey one law in regard to hours, wages, production. To other industries, such as automobiles, the change may make less difference, but it is law of a kind and its potentialities are vast. In short NRA is an operating-if far from smoothly operating-social institution, nationwide...
...University of Chicago professors lifted their eyes from current strife for a glimpse at the future. "Planning in a democracy," declared venerable Political Scientist Charles Edward Merriam, "is a co-operative enterprise, requiring widespread sympathy and support, beyond party and beyond region. Business can block it; labor, agriculture, the middle class, can block it. But the danger then is that we drift away from planning, not into a blissful heaven of politics and economics, to live forever with golden harps, but to a point where force mounts the throne and writes a plan in blood and steel...
Meantime the industry tossed in secret strife over the price of crude oil which has been $1 per bbl. for a year. After a few small buyers boldly chopped the posted price to 60?, Col. Thompson swore that the Texas Railroad Commission would shut down every well in the State if the major companies followed suit...