Word: quarreling
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...pound. The pound dipped briefly, then steadied at $2.81 as Heathcoat Amory reiterated his determination to defend sterling. "Nothing whatever will take precedence," he said. At week's end the Economist was commenting reassuringly: "This has been primarily a politicians' and administrators', not an economists' quarrel...
Nothing that Harold Macmillan or his colleagues said implied any break or even quarrel with the U.S. This was talk and criticism of the kind that distinguishes true allies from satellites. Beyond domestic political situations it was prompted by a feeling that the West as a unit must re-examine some of its international assumptions in the light of Sputnik...
...quarrel with Bellamy's performance might as fairly be lodged against the author or the director. Roosevelt appears too jaunty and gay when he is first stricken. Confidence and good humor did indeed mark his illness, but they are too extreme here and Bellamy does not convey the strain that F.D.R.'s grin must have been for him then...
NATO nations may, and do, quarrel; in the heat of argument they may cry out that the whole family is worthless. But in the last analysis, they cannot escape the consciousness of the tie that binds them. At Paris, the NATO leaders discovered and articulated the fact that that tie was not merely the urgency of military need. It was the basic community of Western civilization itself...
...countries, including Turkey, could count on increased military and economic assistance from the U.S. But neither in the talks with Ike nor in their subsequent luncheon with British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and NATO's Paul-Henri Spaak did Menderes and Karamanlis come to grips with the Cyprus quarrel that has set their countries at daggers drawn, gravely damaged NATO's potential effectiveness in the eastern Mediterranean...