Word: feuded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Copello letter, and the subsequent row over just what it meant, fanned a smoldering feud between Argentine liberals and the church. The liberals, mostly good Catholics themselves, think the church too powerful, too meddlesome and too expensive. The church, which still enjoys medieval prerogatives in Argentina, is loth to give an inch...
Payne takes no partisan stand on Chi nese politics, and so avoids the pros & cons of the Kuomintang-Communist feud. His concern is with the people and their land. He is as sensitive to the landscape as a super-polychromatic film. "I am obsessed," he writes, "with life and death at their sharpest points...
...Romeo and Juliet, an innocent situation is all gummed up by the old folks-the feuding Archers and Pringles. The Archer boy (Scott Elliott), an Air Forces lieutenant, elopes with the Pringle girl (Virginia Welles)-secretly, in deference to the feud. When he ships overseas, his younger sister, Corliss (Shirley Temple), mixes in the intrigue and is spotted sneaking her sister-in-law into the obstetrician's. Shirley quixotically claims the pregnancy for herself and names her moony boyfriend (Jerome Courtland) as the reluctant father. What happens from that point on makes one of the year's fastest...
Akron's troubles stemmed ostensibly from deadlocked contract negotiations. But they were also compounded of more inflammatory stuff-old resentments, a bitter intra-union feud between United Rubber Workers' President Sherman Dalrymple (who wanted no strike) and locals which had repudiated the no-strike pledge...
...Brooklyn won the pennant and the Giants got a new manager: Melvin Thomas Ott, the club's slugging right fielder with a peculiar but potent cocked-leg stand. The feud was and still is in flower, but hard as they tried, the Flatbush faithful could not hate stumpy, boyish Mel Ott. The Dodgers have outclassed the Giants in recent years, but they still respect Enemy Agent...