Word: fractious
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...retrospect, the crusade is what it was in prospect: the most exciting, intimate and high-stakes presidential campaign of modern times. In 1968 the nation was hopelessly fractious. Besieged by opposition to a war not wanted and not understood, Lyndon Johnson was more a prisoner than a President, hostage to his Texas-macho aversion to becoming the "first American President to lose a war." The brother of his martyred predecessor, whose policies had mired the nation in the mess in the first place, wanted Johnson's job and an end to the war. So did Clean Gene McCarthy...
...Congress to defend the mujahedin's interests, the U.S. raised the stakes even further by insisting that Moscow stop all military aid to Najibullah after the pullout. Moscow rejected both points, and Pakistan subsequently backed off from its interim-regime demand when it became clear that the fractious resistance leaders would never accept even token Communist representation in any coalition government...
They are the sweetly pious daughters of a visionary preacher. While he lives, they sacrifice their lives to his faintly absurd beliefs. After he dies, they devote themselves to his memory by keeping his dwindling, aging, increasingly fractious flock together. Their story, stretching over many years, is told with deft economy and quiet wit by Writer-Director Gabriel Axel, who builds an uncannily rich texture out of the simplest materials. Still, the viewer muses, this picture is called Babette's Feast. Where is Babette? Where is her feast...
Back from the abyss, Bush is again the front runner. -- After New Hampshire, the fractious Democrats may be heading for a bartered nomination. -- He is intelligent and an able manager, but can Dukakis lead with his heart as well as his head? -- Abandoning restraint, the candidates embrace negative ads. -- A TIME poll charts who is most electable. See NATION...
...waging a campaign to install condom dispensers in the Freshman Union and the houses. The issues involved, though, have proven themselves impenetrable to the Council. Even the Council's chairman, Evan J. Mandery '89, could not control a discussion on the subject two weeks ago, which became so fractious that the proposal had to be tabled until an upcomming meeting...