Word: fractiousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Italy's coalition government fell apart. Deserted by the right wing of his Cabinet, Premier Ferruccio Parri resigned. To Italy's fractious factions he addressed a warning...
Somebody in Washington had thought it was high time that the President and his Democratic majority had a high old time together. Congress was showing signs of going into a fractious mood. Last week, it had sawed down the President's unemployment compensation plan, and it was testing its temper against more controversial measures coming up. By all factions in Congress Harry Truman was still one of the best liked of all Presidents, but he had undeniably lost some of his early acceptance on the Hill. It was time for the pouring of oil on waters and of water...
...maker's son from Iowa, who had risen to a position more powerful than many kings's, bowed out. His friends said he would write his memoirs, if his health permitted. He would have much to tell about: the Hundred Days of the New Deal honeymoon, the fractious days of WPA, the vindictive days of the 1938 purge, the bustling days after Pearl Harbor, and the days of high-policy travel when Casablanca, Cairo, Teheran, Quebec and Yalta became places of international decision...
...Congress Party's moderate, resourceful lawyer Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar. In the background hovered the little man in the dhoti, Mohandas K. Gandhi, freed over a year ago. He was not participating in the conference, but his influence permeated it. Also present were the Moslem League's dapper, fractious President Mohamed Ali Jinnah, the Sikh leader Tara Singh, the Punjab's nonLeague Moslem Premier Malik Khizar Hayat Khan Tiwana. But the man on whom, more than on any other, the future of 400 million Indians depended at this climax of 200 years of British rule, was the short, thickset...
...main constitutional position remains ... as it .was." London still stood by the postwar self-government proposals brought to India by Sir Stafford Cripps in 1942, and roundly turned down by India's fractious factions...