Word: quarreling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During this period, Marina recalls, Oswald's personality changed for the worse. He beat Marina at least once, criticized her, ordered her about, even demanded that she run his bath. She told Ruth, after one quarrel: "I often feel as if I am caught between two fires -mezh dvukh ognei. This is not the first time." Says Ruth: "She meant these fires to be her sense of loyalty and her sense of what was right to do." Oswald also became increasingly secretive. He rented a post office box under the name of "A. Hidell," wrote to U.S. Communist headquarters...
Stuart Davis says he doesn't see why a jury, when it likes a picture very much, shouldn't say so. "Quarrel with the jury itself if you disagree with their choice," he adds, "but don't quarrel with the institution of expressing ideas." Alberto Giacometti gladly took his Guggenheim Grand Prize. But even he had some reservations on being first: "Nothing is absolute in art. You cannot say this painting is worth 100 points, this painting 80, this one 50. It's not a pistol-shooting contest, fortunately...
Nasser's Kiss. Nasser's reaction was equally militant. "For the sake of Palestine," he told the Arab world, "we are ready to meet with those with whom we quarrel, and to sit with those against whom we strive!" Observers of the summit could scarcely believe their eyes. Arab leaders who have been actively trying to cut each other's throats were suddenly enveloped in each other's arms. Saudi Arabia's King Saud, who once spent $5,300,000 trying to procure Nasser's assassination, was embraced and kissed...
Some of them probably are, such as the long-standing quarrel about the filioque clause in the Nicene Creed* which some Catholic thinkers believe could be settled to Orthodoxy's satisfaction. But other issues cannot so easily be smoothed over...
...Pnompenh. The reason dates back to last year, when Acheson successfully represented Cambodia before the International Court of Justice in The Hague in a territorial dispute with Thailand. Last week the U.S. tried to capitalize on this friendship in an effort to end its acerbic-and somewhat mysterious-little quarrel with Cambodia's vain, unpredictable leader, Prince Norodom Sihanouk...