Word: feuded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roosevelt during the troubled days of World War II, a formidable poker player, above all, a man of diplomacy who was appointed Chief Justice to squelch the old feud between Black and Jackson which exploded in public...
Guard Fight. As the principal Assistant Secretary of the Army, Gray has won a Pentagon reputation as a man who knows how the Army works, and gets along with the big brass without being overwhelmed by them. Gray's only brush with trouble in the feud-ridden Pentagon came when a special committee he headed, the so-called Gray Board, recommended that the National Guard be taken out of state hands-and state politics-and put under federal control. The politically powerful National Guard, which spiked the project, may be called on to fight it again: another board...
...this weren't enough, Coach Bruce Munro has a feud on with the Dartmouth coach, Tom Dent. Both are also soccer coaches and began a rivalry last fall when Munro's Crimson soccer team swatted Dent's Green soccer team...
Good-natured, ineffectual Harry Woodring, an Oxford Grouper and an isolationist, seemed unable to grasp the imminence of war, proved to be an ineffective Secretary. Harry Woodring's inaction and Louis Johnson's burning desire for the job precipitated a three-year running feud between the two top men in the War Department...
...This Bavaria of ours is really a circus," explained Josef Mueller, pulling back his thick, rubbery lips in a wide grin. "Jo" should know. Bavaria's canniest politician, he heads the Christian Social Union, its top party machine, an unwieldy, feud-ridden alliance of anti-Marxists which controls 104 of the provincial Landtag's 180 seats. Jo of course was speaking not of Fasching but of Bavaria's political life...