embroilment

The Oregon embroilment had led certain British journals into gross speech about America.

The Alien and Sedition Laws were passed in order to suppress agitation tending to produce such embroilment.

And Lyons is quoted as having understood, in the end, the real purpose of Seward's policy in seeking embroilment with Europe.

On the 25th, Mme. de Svign noted another "serious embroilment."

Time during such an embroilment was hard to measure, and Shann could not be sure.