Word: feuded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting between Ford and Schlesinger was not acrimonious, but both men were uncomfortable. Ford said he needed his own team, that he had to end the public feud between Schlesinger and Kissinger. He kept referring to Schlesinger's "resignation." Schlesinger was irritated by the repetition of the word. "I haven't resigned, sir, you are firing me," he corrected the President...
...shits" and "assholes"--the way Nixon talked in private but without the viciousness. The government's pursuit of Hoffa only confirmed his heroism. If his obsession with Robert Kennedy, the "spoiled brat" was not so real, Hoffa would have needed it for style alone. His explanation of the feud with Kennedy is typical: he says Kennedy began to hate him after losing an arm-wrestling match to Hoffa. Hoffa's "war" is not capital vs. labor, but man against man to see who will crumple...
While political aficionados continue to feud over Portugal's swings to the left and turns to the right, the ordinary Portuguese is simply trying to negotiate a straight line home, where he shuts himself in at night with his wife and children and hopes that the country will still be there when he gets up in the morning. The most popular rallying cry of last week's many demonstrations was one that was chanted by 40,000 Portuguese at a pro-government demonstration organized by Socialist Party Leader Mário Scares: "Discipline! Discipline! Discipline!" As yet. unfortunately...
Maury Allen doesn't get any deeper than a surface recount of DiMaggio's career. He describes the 1941 batting streak in vivid and exciting detail, offers some insight into DiMaggio's longstanding feud with the late Casey Stengel, and shares a few until now unreported tidbits about Marilyn Monroe and Joe. But mostly he allows old ex-Yankees to do the talking and many of them, particularly Lefty Gomez whose monologue goes on for pages, have a propensity for talking more about themselves than about DiMaggio...
Special Position. Though the fighting appeared to taper off at week's end, few Lebanese believed that the paralyzing feud was finished. They feared, moreover, that the continuing battles might eventually destroy the special position of Lebanon in the Middle East, in which it has managed to avoid the bloodshed of wars with Israel and at the same time build up a profitable business with the world around it. At the core of the problem is the country's outdated government structure, which was designed in a poly-religious society to be fair to all by allotting posts...