Word: fractiously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Billy Cunningham ought to know. The outfit he will lead into the pro playoffs next week in quest of the league championship was renowned for being as zany and fractious as any in sport when he took over as coach early this season. The best team money could buy (basketball division) featured a $2.2 million payroll and a collection of egos that beggared even that price tag. Forward George McGinnis often behaved as though his feet were chained to the floor when someone else had the ball. Center Darryl Dawkins, 6 ft. 11 in., 251 lbs., was a tempestuous...
...White House's ability to settle the strike was strictly limited. Both sides have proved to be stubborn, fractious and suspicious. In the scarred and desolate hills of Appalachia, owners and miners both take for granted a degree of conflict that does not exist in other U.S. industries. From the start, the 130 companies that belong to the Bituminous Coal Operators Association showed a determination to bludgeon the union into a contract that had little chance of ratification by the rank and file. In exchange for a 37% pay increase over a three-year period, the owners insisted...
...evidence last week. The Begin Cabinet, after days of heated debate over whether to stop the expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, finally concluded that there was "no need at this time for any new decision." Jerusalem's announcement highlighted a serious dispute within the fractious Begin Cabinet, which has Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon pressing ahead with new settlements while Defense Minister Ezer Weizman calls for an end to that activity during the negotiations. Using his military authority to fight the Sharon policy, Weizman ordered that some 20 young farmers be barred from moving into...
...Large urban dailies, Time, Newsweek, and a number of lesser national magazines dominate public expression. In the last 50 years, the number of both large and small circulation newspapers has declined precipitously, and with it a broad range of viewpoints and verbal freedom. The principle of a partisan, local, fractious, extremely diverse and decentralized press--a principle which survived from the first scurrilous debate on Federalism, through the Civil War, and into the 20th Century--has largely ceased to exist. Taking up the slack from the decline in newspapers, the nationally prominent magazines appeal to large readerships by cultivating only...
...megawatts of power constantly, and to get it, they burn 3 million tons of coal each week. Even if the strike were to end immediately, it would take 30 days to ratify the agreement and then restore the mines to working order. Yet the strike, complicated by a fractious union that has repudiated its own leadership, shows no sign of ending. "The power is just draining away," says an aide to Energy Secretary James Schlesinger...