Word: strife
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...history, geographical position and culture confer the right and impose the duty on our little Germanic country of being and remaining a useful member of the community of nations. . . . Not by fratricidal strife but by co-operation can the nations solve the great problem...
...justly praised Boston Tea Party. Finally, by being subject to a mild wave of tear gas, I believe those in and about the Stock Exchange may begin to realize the tremendous amount of bitterness which is constantly growing in our midst as the result of industrial strikes, and agricultural strife...
...Very Reverend Dean's little speech changed the whole atmosphere of Australia. Roaring with rage, the Commonwealth's high-blood-pressured politicians forgot their local strife last week in attacking Dean Johnson's "outburst of ignorance." Cried Premier Forgan Smith of the Australian State of Queensland which adjoins the vast and almost vacant Northern Territory: "As a means of smashing the British Commonwealth of Nations no more effective scheme could be devised...
...long be maintained, it becomes ever more obvious to the Have Nots that the position of the Haves is completely unjustified. And when the former find that the latter are not inclined to acknowledge their right, by virtue of a vote-majority, to change the fundamental assumptions of society, strife is unavoidable and democratic forms will be tossed aside by both sides...
Guardsmen's guns kept the peace at strife-torn Le Mars, Iowa, last week while a military court worked up evidence for the civil prosecution of those rural mobsters who, week before, had abducted and outraged Judge Charles Clark Bradley (TIME, May 8). Nearly 100 earth-stained farmers were held prisoner in a military stockade outside town. Governor Herring had just promised to lift martial law in Plymouth County when at Des Moines, 160 mi. away, fresh farm trouble sprouted to plague the good name of Iowa. Meeting in the cattle pavilion of the State Fair Grounds, the Farmers...