Word: strife
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...first Kaiser of the resurrected German Reich. Since then we have lost much that was dear to us, and that will survive always in our old soldiers' hearts. "But one thing has remained, and that is the Fatherland! This we will serve in its need beyond all party strife in selfless love and loyalty. And in this hour of consecration we will renew our pledge with the old cheer: 'Deutschland Hurra...
However, Bishop Manning was not without defenders. Said Ernest Vincent Shayler, P. E. Bishop of Nebraska, England-born (like Bishop Manning): "If some New York papers would quit Bishop-baiting, if some Episcopal clergy would quit ecclesiastical rowdyism and some Protestant ministers cease strife-making, you would have a better atmosphere in New York...
Reverberations from the strife of recent party campaigns and elections have been strong enough to penetrate the remote seclusion of the Vagabond's quarters. In keeping with his lecture listening, academic frame of mind, he shuns an active participation in the world of affairs and prefers to contemplate things political from a detached and philosophic point of view. Two excellent opportunities for indulging in such meditative thought are offered him this morning. At nine o'clock he will be found in Sever 23 listening to Professor Fay, whose brilliant reputation as the biographer of Franklin ensures a scholarly and entertaining...
...five thousand years there has been human strife. There have been wars of religion, of imperialism, and of revenge, but there is seldom an honest war. Battles give birth to peace settlements that are, as a rule, as futile and as insincere as the combats themselves. The Congress of Vienna which sought so earnestly to roll up the map of Europe forever was followed by a system which several decades later was to leave Europe in the throes of revolution. Disraeli in 1878 said he had won "Peace with honor" for England, and in 40 years she was embroiled...
...always the followers of both camps, the people who make revolution a more inspiring, more honest thing than war. And there are always, too, soldiers of fortune who seek only excitement, who, regardless of issues, fight for either side, and who shift their loyalty with easy convenience. Human strife carries with it many sordid trappings, but none so despicable as the blatant soldier of fortune...