Word: feud
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Republican race revives what has been a long-standing political feud within the party between House Minority Leader William Robinson and Republican Party leader Andrew Natsios...
Hemingway should be spared further Freudian autopsy. He was a masterpiece of contradiction. Every element in him had a blood feud with its opposite. He cherished his friends and he treacherously turned on them (on Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, Scott Fitzgerald and many others). He adored women and he hated them. His literary program was to write the brutal truth, and yet he was sometimes a liar and a fraud. He was profoundly creative and profoundly destructive. He had a spontaneous gift of life. He enjoyed (that is the word) a lifelong relationship with death. He resolved all contradictions...
...running feud with the press herd had already been revived the week before, when he and Actress Tatum O'Neal were married in Oyster Bay, N.Y. McEnroe spit at a photographer a couple of days before the wedding and slipped into the church through dark curtains draped over the carport entrance. Give him points for trying, however. After the ceremony McEnroe and his wife waved, smiled and kissed for the crowds outside the church...
...writes books of spiky social advice. "It's very natural to enjoy tradition, and it was phony and unnatural when people said everything that came before me was wrong." Setting sail in the prevailing wind and recognizing that "a wedding is a wonderful place to establish a good family feud that will last twelve generations." In September, Martin will release a video, Miss Manners' Guide to a Charmingly Correct Wedding...
...journalist wants to interview me," Schmertz writes, "I generally assume the story he's working on is hostile to me or my company, or else he wants to use me to attack somebody else. When a print reporter calls, I make no such assumptions." Yet Mobil, in a feud with the Wall Street Journal, refuses to talk to Journal reporters, and has taken its ads out of the paper. Merely a tantrum, or wrong- headed behavior by a giant corporation...