Word: strife
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That this country which bled for democracy sheds tears for a dictator instead of for an unfortunate people, suppressed, torn by civil strife, and willing to fight to the bitter end for its liberty, is, I hope, due to the influence of the press. But that TIME, ordinarily fair and farsighted, falls in with this view, is a disappointment...
...characters. More typical of the traditional Russian novel than the Sovietized product, And Quiet Flows the Don hymns no paean to the Five Year Plan. Its ponderously simple narrative follows the fortunes of the Don Cossacks from peace to war to revolution, leaves them in the midst of civil strife. Though it is far from made-to-order propaganda, the book has sold a million copies in U. S. S. R., has been translated into seven languages...
...Ladies, Gentlemen, Undergraduates: It is with mixed feelings that we, the Ivy Orator, observe this scene of pandemonium, this shambles. Four years of college life, four years of bitter strife, four years of halcyon existence have sapped our resistance. As our President has so aptly said in his recent Baccalaureate address, anything worth doing well is worth trying or at least putting off until tomorrow, since it gathers no moss in the good old summer time.' Gentlemen, your future lies behind me, and before you I see my past--my present past, which in no sense your future past...
...pineapples, and typewriters, every coolie packs a rod. Africa, whilom house of the laughter loving lion, is now a hornet's nest of poison darts, dum dum bullets, King Kong and Frank Buck. War is imminent. (Advertisement courtesy of the National Students League.) In a chaos of Hate and Strife we find ourselves, swept along by irresistible currents, pursued by a thousand enemies, unable to save ourselves by uttering a long quavering squeal the way Tarzan does when he and Jane get chased from pillar to post by his jungle pals. What, then, shall we do? Shall...
...awful calm which followed hard upon the sound of war the nations met at Paris to preserve forever the peace which four years of strife had taught them to cherish and to bring among the people of the earth a new harmony. One man, above the others, sought alone to rekindle those lights which Lord Grey had seen going out all over Europe in the dread spring of 1914. He was an honest, earnest man who by his teachings and his phrases had taught men to believe that they could rule themselves and that nations could lie down together...