Word: feuded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Threskiornis aethiopica, was aprocryphally donated to the Lampoon by William Randolph Hearst in 1901, when the new Lampoon building was completed. Since its first happy years with the 'Poonies, the lbis, sometimes known as Threskie, has had several leaves of absence, many of them accountable to a century-long feud between the Harvard Crimson and the Harvard Lampoon. It has been stolen twice this year already, and has just returned to its perch. Now Lampoon members are threatening a 125-volt battery to fry anyone who gets playful with their pet in the future...
...King Sigvor, played by the noted Swedish actor, Gunnar Björnstrand. They are met by Sigvor's three sons. All six of them are blond and beautiful and brave; they hammer at one another all day in endless rounds of mounted combat. Then they declare the blood feud over and retire to a sauna romp and a brotherly banquet, at which
Before long, though, the old feud is heated up again. It culminates in a six-man battle on a beach by the bleak northern sea that is like some scene from the Morte d'Arthur. Heads are stricken from shoulders and go bouncing down the sand; bodies are spitted on spear and sword. The effect is stately as a tapestry, stylized as a morality play...
Last week's maelstrom of looting and arson swirled past Oakland, Calif., leaving its hate-filled ghettos almost unscathed. But Oakland's police were deeply embroiled in a bitter private race feud of their own. Ranged against them was a strutting band of hyper-militants styling themselves the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The Panthers, armed and angry, are defiantly demanding a facedown...
...major difference between the Truman and Johnson decisions is that the discontent with Truman was tame compared with the virulent hatreds that Johnson aroused. Then, too, except for the Dixiecrats who threatened to bolt as they had in 1948, the intraparty feud that Truman faced was minor. His really serious problem would have been trying to defeat the probable G.O.P. candidate, Dwight Eisenhower...