Word: quarreling
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...Field Marshal Alexander Papagos, who in 1949, with U.S. help, defeated the Communists on the battlefield. Greece's No. 1 military hero (commander in chief of Greek forces in World War II) might long ago have been Greece's No. 1 political leader but for a personal quarrel with King Paul. His Greek Rally Party polled the largest number of seats in the last election, but the King snubbed the Field Marshal and handed the government to a coalition of Plastiras Progressives and Venizelos Liberals. The coalition fell to pieces when it became apparent that it could govern...
...Princeton eating club, to a casual visitor, seems to offer nothing except an endless round of parties, dances, and dinners. But behind this facade of elegance--waiters, fine food, comfortable chairs, linen table cloths--lies a quarrel that nearly split the university in two three years ago, and the resulting mess is still the hottest topic on the campus...
Winston Churchill last week told the world that in his opinion "the prospect of war is remote and receding. Atomic warfare is too horrible for either side to contemplate, reasoned Churchill. "The quarrel might continue for an indefinite period, but after the first month it would be a broken-back war in which no great armies could be moved over long distances. Governments, dependent upon long-distance communications by land, might well find that they had quite soon lost their power to dominate events...
...other nations, and free world trade restored. Said he: "Two-way trade with foreign nations ... is the only really practical way to achieve peace on this earth. Two individuals or two communities or two nations who mutually profit from trading with each other do not tend to quarrel...
...have, then, a tableau which includes one rule misapplied, one rule broken with official sanction, and a quarrel between Governing Board and Dean's Office on definitions. Added to this are the Saturday afternoon sportscasts of the football games, sponsored by the Atlantic Oil Company. At best, this is a tableau riddled with inconsistencies. At worst, it is a perversion of the University's dubious Good Name Policy, a perversion which exalts the popular Band and football team over lesser known groups solely on the basis of which will glorify Harvard's name the most...