Word: quarreling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chortle that "the Tory Party is split from top to bottom." Heath took to the telly to explain that "this resignation does not mean that I am against discussion of party policy or criticism, but there is a right and a wrong way of doing things." Few Tories would quarrel with that, but not a few wondered if Heath had "shot the right fox." More than Maude's maunderings, it has been the outspoken speeches of Shadow Defense Minister Enoch Powell opposing the official Tory positions on defense and incomes policy that have set Tory backbenchers-and some frontbenchers...
...quarrel about who said what about Dr. Wood's task force went on in reasonably good-natured style, and the President deftly turned the whole exchange into a little lecture to the press. "I have made no decision," he said. "I have not been called upon to make any decision. The best authority for a presidential decision is the President or the press secretary, and you can always get guidance on that if you have the time or the disposition to obtain...
...tipped off by the U.S. about its pause in bombing." In any case Shelepin's visit could indeed help determine whether or not a "signal" ever comes from Hanoi. For the war in Viet Nam is more and more the chief ideological dueling ground of the Sino-Soviet quarrel...
Though they would have preferred that the Federal Reserve wait until January, when the final figures for next year's budget will be ready, even the President's economic advisers did not seriously quarrel with the board's move. They were impressed by November figures that showed a rapid rise in bank credit and by an additional and unexpected rise of $900 million in plans for plant and equipment investment in 1966 -a jump indicating that the pressure on credit will be more permanent than previously supposed...
...Advocate's prose drought continues. Gerald Hillman sets up a psychotic counterpart between the colloquial jabberings of an Italian family and the stilted quarrel of a couple who live upstairs. All this either occurs in or comments on the passive consciousness of Willy, the title character, who has been nudged over some brink by the death of a woman named Anita. "Reality is reality, it's essential," says Mr. White, one of the upstairs wranglers. But Willy's reality rushes chaotically into his mind, scrambled and unpunctuated, hinting at a story line that never fully materializes. Hillman's attempted humor...