Word: bicker
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...irked Franco over Juan Carlos' engagement. Instead of consulting the touchy dictator in advance, he merely telephoned the Caudillo a few hours before the public announcement. Franco took the call aboard his yacht Azor, laid down the receiver after hearing the news, paced the deck, then returned to bicker icily over details, finally hung up without offering a word of congratulation...
With the broad outline, the delegates found little to bicker about. The loudest bickering came from Cuba's scraggle-bearded economic czar. Che Guevara. Che, author of one of the basic Communist treatises on guerrilla warfare, proved himself a troublesome parliamentary guerrilla. He began by objecting to "almost all the affirmations'' made in the opening round of speeches, once stormed in a blind rage out of the conference hall-and into the ladies' rest room. (Said a Guatemalan delegate: "If there were not a halo of blood surrounding this flabby Cantinflas. he would actually be amusing...
...group of skimpy has-beens and pallid never-weres. There are William's dull mistresses, who have been more habit-forming than exhilarating; there is a culture-nibbling male spinster, a self-centered, vermouth-soggy ex-publisher. Dancing around William at birthdays and get-togethers, they bicker and collide, inflate their roles, deflate their rivals; while darting dandiacally in and out is a successful literary glamour boy, cruelly kind as he hurries off to grander feasts...
...shares his cot with his "model" (Viveca Lindfors). She keeps nagging him to marry her, he keeps dodging. Underneath the usual evasions lies, of course the usual fear of life, but he'll be damned if he's going to open that can of worms. ) they bicker, make up, get engaged take his mother (Chiarina Barile) to an old folks home, trail her all over town when she runs away, bicker, break up. The crisis comes, their lives turn on a instant when the hero, wandering through a vast metropolitan cemetery in search of his fathers grave, understands...
According to preliminary plans, the quad rooms will be attractive, and its other facilities equally comfortable. It will not be surprising if a fairly large group of sophomores this spring decide that Bicker is not for them, that they will "go to the quad...