Word: feud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sabrina emerged a few years later as guest of honor at a Class of '88 dinner, was similarly feted by 1890's graduating class, and stolen several days later by a member of the Class of '91. The theft set the ground rule for the campus feud which ever since has flared and faded and re-flared between odd-and even-numbered classes. In the struggle for possession of her comely 300 pounds, Sabrina wound up in some odd spots: hidden away in the depths of a West Virginia coal mine, in the basement of a sausage...
...ideas rather than try new ones. Now, Harry, 69, and Al, 68, plan to get out of the business altogether. Only Jack, 59, will remain with the company until the new owners find another production boss. A likely successor is Lurie's friend Louis B. Mayer, whose feud with Dore Schary at M-G-M may make him glad to leave when his contract runs out on Sept. 1. Hollywooders think that if Mayer goes in, he may eventually buy Warner's production lot. Lurie hasn't made a deal with Mayer yet, but significantly asks...
Vassar College was rent by a philosophical feud in January when a clash over Plato led to a violent departmental row and the sudden dismissal of four of the seven philosophy instructors "for the harmony of the department...
...produced his clincher. For his only defense witness, he called up none other than Wisconsin's Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, self-appointed _ commander in the war on Communism in the U.S. From the moment McCarthy began to speak, it was plain that he was determined to continue his feud with Maryland's Millard Tydings even if it meant giving aid & comfort to the Reds themselves...
When the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board patched up their long feud a fortnight ago, the peacemaker was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Wiliam McChesney Martin Jr., 44, onetime Joy wonder of Wall Street and the Fair Deal. Because both Treasury Secretary ohn W. Snyder and Federal Reserve Chairman Thomas B. McCabe had taken such well-entrenched positions that neither could beat a graceful retreat, Snyder had asked Martin to help work out a compromise...