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Flags of Our Fathers
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- Privately, he continued to wrestle with his Adventist beliefs and their conflict with his military obligations.†
Chpt 5. *conflict = struggle or disagreement
- As the war in Europe was thundering to an end, correspondents had migrated from that theater to the Pacific to record the growing conflict.†
Chpt 12.
- But this war had already produced six of them; and, with the European conflict drawing to a close, Treasury officials were concerned about the public's response to a seventh.†
Chpt 15.
- Would there be enough to finance the unfinished business against the fanatical Japanese military in the Pacific—a conflict that still promised bloodshed on a massive scale?†
Chpt 15.
- These, after all, were the Americans who formed the solid home front of World War II: the men and women who worked assembly lines to build the tanks and guns; who gave sons and daughters to the conflict; who collected paper and bottles and scrap iron for the war effort; who as priests and ministers gave solace; who as day-to-day citizens sacrificed their luxuries and their necessities in the cause of victory.†
Chpt 16.
Definitions:
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(1)
(conflict) a struggle or disagreementin various senses, including:
- a serious disagreement -- as in "political conflict"
- the tension from two opposing ideas or feelings -- as in "I'm conflicted about where I should go to college."
- a violent fight or war -- as in "the Israeli-Palestinian conflict"
- an idiom that refers to tension between responsibilities to different entities -- "conflict of interest"
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)