Word: bickering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gloom seems unshakable," said one high official. "Loss of confidence in the government is almost absolute. Everyone feels that he is in the shadow of imminent disaster. In the prevailing pessimism, people bicker and blame, but find no way out. They run to the government for personal favors, but never with wholehearted support. This is our danger. If we can't recover morale, if we can't regain popular confidence, then the government is lost indeed...
...always to be expected that new organizations will stumble about a good bit and bicker considerably before developing into adulthood. Though NSA in beyond the stumbling period, the recent conference did have its share of bickering, for it was the first bi-regonal meeting of the Northern and Southern New England regionals. The split along the North-South lines over NSA's position in regard to partisan politics appeared to be the cause of the stalemate that prevented the conference from being effective. Actually the squabbling arose only out of the real point of failure: lack of organization...
...Bicker Has Wide Implications...
Winding up the course was an all-afternoon "bicker session" at which final blunt questions were aired...
...Though we have done a good job of killing the enemy, I find no sign of an organized hate in any of our men. . . . Our men come closer to hating those at home who break faith with us at the fronts-the shirkers, the profiteers, those who bicker in Washington over our rights. If the powers that be in America deny us in the service the right to an easy, practical way of voting, they will live to regret it. And to the last man our group js not in accord with What some people in the states are trying...