Word: strife
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...responding, Ambassador Kellogg referred to the political strife which had been raging and stressed the fact that he was neutral...
...strife, now and always due to economic maladjustment, would disappear with the elimination of private ownership of land, which has ever been the basis and the cause of all the world's economic troubles...
...looking on indifferently. It was helpless before a parliament consisting of numerous parties and parties within parties. New elections due to insidious propaganda had not ameliorated the situation, and it was impossible to pass a law which would please a majority. Ministry after ministry rose and fell, while strife and bloodshed continued throughout the nation. A communist revolution was openly spoken of. But finally a revolution did come, and a bloodless revolution it was. Instead of a Lenine at the helm, there appeared Benito Mussolini, the man of the hour. Seizure of power under the above circumstances, I am inclined...
...armies can prevail. It is scientific destruction. The Frankenstein created by man is triumphant, and man must kill it. When strong men rode out to meet strong men, face to face and sword against sword, war was little more to be condemned that a football game. It was Olympian strife...
...hindered by our repudiation of the work we had begun. If others in those years have pursued selfish aims, we who set the example cannot blame them. If in those years, or in the years to come for which they prepared the way, there has been, or shall be, strife and bloodshed that our strength in the council of the world might have prevented, the blood is on our hands...