Word: antagonistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shame, shame!" bellowed outraged Bevanites. "Withdraw! Let Nye reply!" Burly Arthur Deakin, chief of the Transport and General Workers Union and Bevan's frequent antagonist, lumbered to his feet to demand that Donnelly be allowed to continue. Bevan's pent-up anger and frustration burst. "Shut up," he hissed savagely at Deakin. "Shut up yourself!" yelled Deakin. "You big bully!" cried Bevan. "You're afraid of him," snapped Deakin. "Bully yourself!"-accompanying this last thrust by what one newspaper called "a gesture not usually used in polite society...
...Administration. He is quite certain, Ike said, that the U.N. must be retained as a world forum. The task is not to scuttle it but to make it work. The U.S., he added, cannot possibly serve its own best interests by cutting off diplomatic relations with its major antagonist...
...they acknowledged an obligation to increase fringe benefits, frozen by contract since 1949. But a more significant reason was their high regard for U.S.W. President McDonald. By giving him a fat new contract without trouble, management also gave him increased prestige and power to match up against his old antagonist, C.I.O. President Walter Reuther. Said one top steel executive: "The steel industry knows that it is going to have to deal with the union problem on a permanent basis. It therefore wants a sober, responsible, conservative man running the union, and not some Socialist element...
...blew the whistle was Russia's Molotov. Ever since he returned from Moscow ten days before, he had dropped his role of forbearing arbiter and become once again the familiar aggressive antagonist. Observers suspected that he had learned in Moscow the only thing he wanted to know: the U.S. was not going to intervene in Indo-China. Last week Molotov got confirmation from the highest sources. Secretary of State Dulles said that the U.S. "has no intention of dealing with the Indo-China situation unilaterally"; that it was up to the French, and that there were no plans...
...unworldly animal screaming and clawing in a frenzy of fury, but he seems now to want to avoid upsetting his audience. Heated Discussion, although done in disturbing flame reds, shows two comically human figures locked in eternal argument; each figure has his eyes and ears turned away from his antagonist, more interested in his own arguments than his opponent...