Word: quarreling
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After a honeymoon visit to Ike's family in Abilene, Kans.-and a bitter quarrel over Ike's imperturbable refusal to come home from a hometown poker game until 2 a.m.-Mamie joined the Army. It was often a trying life; in one year she had to set up housekeeping on seven different Army posts...
...father, Jay Chambers, a commercial artist who never wanted children, left his wife and two sons for some years-and gave them a living allowance of $8 a week. Even after he came back to his family, he seldom spoke except to quarrel with his mother-in-law, who was apt to roam the house brandishing a butcher's knife...
...took him away from his translations. He was a self-appointed guardian of the church's orthodoxy. From Bethlehem he thundered against the hairsplitting heresies of the time with the mordancy of a theological Leo Durocher. When Jerome's onetime friend Rufinus died, after a long theological quarrel with him, the saint wrote: "Now that the scorpion lies buried . . . and the hydra with its numerous heads has ceased its hissing against us, and time is given for other things than answering the iniquities of heretics . . . I will tackle the Prophet Ezekiel...
...Disreputable Transaction." This displeased everybody: Winston Churchill, then Opposition leader, called it "a disreputable transaction," and most Englishmen seemed to agree. Tribesmen began a campaign of passive resistance, refused to pay taxes. Seretse and Tshekedi patched up their quarrel. Britain's Labor government, which had allowed Seretse to return to his wife in Bechuanaland for the birth of their baby, abruptly ordered them out of Africa...
...plenty of people getting married for the first time." Nelson has had 17 policemen married on his show (he got one speeding ticket fixed as a result), and four children have been named after him. He constantly hears from Bride & Groom graduates who want him to patch up a quarrel, find them a job or lend them some money. He is heartened by a recent survey of 1,100 Bride & Groom couples which shows that only twelve have been separated or divorced since the program began, that the majority claim to have no pressing problems, and that nearly 400 children...