Word: feuded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...origin of the feud is obscure. Earnestly endeavoring to track it down, one editor found: "Back in the 80's, some indifferent Yardsters referred idly to the growing institution on Garden Street as the Harvard Annex. That name stuck for years, faintly indicative of the vague scorn with which undergraduates looked on their feminine associates. In the intervening years, poor Radcliffe has come to be a synonym for all that is unattractive in women...
Billy the Kid. The other great event of Wallace's life was his term as governor of New Mexico. He reached Santa Fe in September 1878, to find his constituency deep in a bloody feud. The wealthy cattle firm of Lawrence G. Murphy & Co. had been threatened by a likable young Englishman named John Tunstall. So far, 23 men, including Tunstall himself, had been murdered...
...failure could be put down to two main causes: 1) the appalling weakness of the Greek Army; 2) a personal feud between the two equal U.S. plenipotentiaries in Athens, Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh and Dwight Griswold, special head of the U.S. mission...
...longest split-week in Harvard's theatrical history is beginning to suffer from a glut of empty seats. Like Benny and Allen, the Harvard Dramatic Club and the Veteran's Theatre Workshop seem to think there's nothing like a feud to fill the stands. The stunt is wearing thin, though, and readers of the daily communiques are beginning to wonder why both groups don't fold their flats and silently steal away to squabble in a small, warm, soundproofed room...
...trying to discredit one member . . . but your prime motive is to discredit the entire committee." Angrily, Ferguson added that there would be no more "side issues." By the end of that day, Hughes and Senator Brewster, facing each other across the table, decided to call quits to their feud...