Word: feuds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...promise and tells of his hopes. In Old Pebble's view, the engineer has cursed the junk, and murdered the river in effigy with his plans. And to the American, Old Pebble is an annoying boulder in the path of progress. The two are locked in their petty feud when the river takes an awesome hand in its own destiny, leaving the American chastened and wiser...
...Armed Forces Day programs across the country sought to give public evidence of harmony within the U.S. military last week, an ancient and hardy feud again reached the leaked-memo stage. The Army, Navy and Air Force were all involved, and the tactics were familiar: staff papers with ugly criticisms of other services were passed furtively to newsmen in Pentagon corridors, soon boiled into bulletins and headlines...
...Green Mare has some of the quality of a fable, as well as some of the inescapable judgment of life that every good fable offers. In the farm town of Claquebue most human feelings and actions are taken coolly for granted. Also taken for granted is the family feud between the Malorets and the Haudouins...
...Haudouin was forced to lie quietly under his mother's bed while a Prussian sergeant had his way with her. Convinced that Zèphe Maloret sent the Prussians there, he has hated the family ever since. His well-to-do brother Ferdinand wants to drop the feud because Maloret is important politically. Ferdinand is the kind of man who, on hearing that his favorite son wants to enter the priesthood, says flatly: "You'll get no dessert until you have changed your mind." Hearing the shocking story of their mother's shame for the first time...
Into the Closet. For a while the feud between the brothers threatens to over shadow the war between the families...