Word: feud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president's feud with the college fraternities began four years ago when he handed them a three-point ultimatum. At that time he ordered them to take in a greater percentage of the total student body, abolish all racial and religious discriminatory clauses from their charters, and raise their scholastic averages...
...Bennett got the money back by torturing the kidnaper. The kidnaper went to Bennett's home, shot him in the side and fled. Bennett asked the police not to prosecute. But, he adds offhandedly: "The gunman was later shot and killed on a Detroit street-in some gang feud, I suppose...
...main story tries to show a growing feud between a Russian MP and an American MP, former war-time friends patrolling Vienna together, which almost develops into an East-West war. There is also an Englishman and a Frenchman around for the ride. The other tale concerns a lovely young Viennese woman who fears her husband may never come home from a Russian prison camp...
...raised the ante to 40%, Noble rebelled. Two "enforcers" went after him in a wild night automobile chase and shot him in the back. About that time, Binion moved to Las Vegas, and Noble retired from gambling to become a rancher and a trader in surplus airplane engines. The feud between them...
Rearmament. On foreign policy, the Adenauer-Schumacher feud cleaves the Bundestag. Many German and Allied officials hope, probably in vain, for a "great coalition" of conservatives and Socialists so that German rearmament can be launched by bipartisan decision. German opposition to rearmament has decreased greatly in the last six months. There has been what the Germans call "Zeit zum umdenken"-time to think it over. General Eisenhower's declaration that the German soldier never lost his honor soothed much injured pride. Oddly enough, Neo-Nazi Ernst Remer (TIME, May 21) has also been helpful. A German veteran explained...