Word: quarreling
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...condescend to quarrel with your opponent. Let your underlings...
...Sultan kept a primitive court where he enjoyed the favors of scores of wives in his youth, several in his old age, although he begot no offspring. Three nieces, however, he adopted as his daughters. No sooner had he died than one of them, Princess Dayang Dayang,* began to quarrel with Hadji Butu, the late Sultan's grand vizier, over who was to succeed Kiram II. Dayang Dayang won the first round. Since the Sultan's corpse was rapidly putrefying and could not be buried until a new ruler had been chosen, she secured the appointment...
...trained by U. S. Marines during the seven-year U. S. occupation, and its General Anastasio Somoza, who had deployed his men around the base of the volcano. No murmur of protest at these activities rose from the Nicaraguan populace, who chose to regard the affair strictly as a quarrel between Somoza and Sacasa for the right to name Nicaragua's next President...
...spite of its mystifying title and occasional turgidity, Private Number is more than a cliche in modern dress. Its interest does not lie in the love affair but in its exposition of the complicated backstairs politics of a big household. Wroxton's perpetual quarrel with the cook, his sly methods of bullying the chauffeur, his espionage operations with the downstairs maid, his scavenging the household's pay envelopes and extending his influence into the private lives of his employers are a competent addition to current institutional screen drama...
...Institute was humming along nicely with 150 pupils when Sergeant York abruptly asked the Board of Education to remove the Institute's principal, Henry Clay Brier. In Fentress County a bloodless feud instantly was declared. Yorkites darkly accused Principal Brier of misconduct. Brierites countercharged that the quarrel was over the principal's treatment of the school janitor, Sergeant York's brother. When the trouble came to a head fortnight ago, the Board met, accepted the resignations of both Founder York-who at the same time declined the Prohibition Party's Vice Presidential nomination-and Principal Brier...