Word: strife
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...week the antechamber to a series of vital conferences in hotel rooms between the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany. These so august statesmen were in a critical predicament. They had each just received a Nobel Peace Prize (see above), yet there existed between them ample grounds for strife. They were seeking to substitute for Allied military control of German disarmament civilian control by the League...
Reviving interest in the problems of war and peace has recently brought forth an elaborately documented attempt to upset the theory of German War guilt*; and the strife-pregnant though thus far peaceable post-War development of Turkey and Egypt has just been set forth by the much heeded oracle of the London Westminster Gazette...
...felt these reactions only slightly, but all that is necessary to convince anyone of the World War's cost is to consider the statistics. Ten million men, the finest youth of the world, are dust today. Three hundred and sixty billion dollars have been squandered in the madness of strife...
...this division came the use of the chorus as in Greek drama of a later period, and finally the song-and-dance motive was entirely gone from Greek poetry in its decadent stage. The chorus sang of the things which touch the deepest chord in the human soul,--dove, strife, death, and immortality. The natural expression of such thoughts was song and motion...
Events national and international impinged significantly during the past fortnight upon Premier Raymond Poincare. He who stepped from the Olympian security of a onetime (1913-1920) Presidency of France to assume a thankless Premiership and save the franc (TIME, Aug. 2), became once again a nucleus for strife, a target for criticism...