Word: quarreling
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...nominate Senator Joseph R. McCarthy . . . Only the most squeamish would quarrel with his tactics...
Robert Newman and Joe Cunningham, roustabouts with a traveling carnival, went drinking together in Greenville, S.C. They got into a drunken quarrel, and Newman stabbed Cunningham to death. Last week Circuit Judge J. B. Pruitt sentenced Newman, 23, to two years in jail for manslaughter. In imposing the minimum sentence (maximum under South Carolina law: 30 years), Pruitt told the defendant, a white man, that he deserved to do time for drinking with Cunningham, a Negro. "God made us different," said the judge. "You could have found some white people to associate with...
...Avarice and Anger, a greedy landlord and his angry wife engage in a bitter quarrel over money the husband has taken from a poor tenant. The rather contrived ending, however, is a weak point...
...apparently in many earlier generations be taken for granted. Latterly, they have tended to ebb away in the all but universal adoration of the state, and in almost idolatrous preoccupation with the secular order, the accumulation of knowledge, and with good works. There is not and cannot be a quarrel with any of these things in themselves, but only with the notion that they are independently sufficient goods...
...plenty of troubles with RKO and other of his business ventures (TIME, Feb. 23), was hip deep in trouble with his successful electronic company. The top echelon of men who had built up the company had quit, and the Air Force was frantically trying to keep the quarrel from slowing up the building of fighter planes. Hughes Aircraft's rise is partly the work of a onetime Ford industrial management expert named Charles ("Tex") Thornton, who became vice president and assistant general manager, and two of the nation's top electronics engineers, Simon Ramo, who came from General...