Word: quarreling
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...occasional sorcerers who hurt only people they dislike and may even exert their force quite unconsciously. The first are exterminated instantly when caught. The second may escape punishment if they repair the damage. Thus when a woman in childbirth is having a difficult labor, her friends remember some quarrel with another woman who must now be causing the trouble, and this woman is requested to come and apply her saliva to the mother's body, thereby canceling the enchantment...
...novelty in Japanese politics, the Council provides an arena less formal than the Cabinet in which the fighting service and civilian ministers, perpetually at cross purposes, can quarrel at their ease for the public weal. The question last week was how many more bonds can the Imperial Government force the nation to absorb in order to meet the continued cost of Japanese penetration deeper & deeper into China...
...joke in the U. S. First a noisy controversy arose as to whether such a river actually existed. The newspapers jumped into the fray. Cartoons appeared featuring a burly figure with buck teeth and thick-lensed glasses, and a nebulous torrent. Editorials were written on both sides of the quarrel. The "River of Doubt" became a household phrase and the country had a grand time...
...strike of the slaves during the war years, when large numbers followed the Northern troops despite the efforts of officers to discourage them, were used at first as laborers, were eventually trained and employed as troops. Southerners, if they penetrate so deeply into Du Bois's history, may quarrel with his account of the success of the former slaves in battle, as well as with his version of the softening Southern attitude toward slaves during the war, but they must face his facts that Lee himself, just before his final surrender, was contemplating using Negro troops, that Southern leaders...
Last week, the annual commotion about Pitcher Dean occurred in Pittsburgh where the Cardinals were playing the Pirates. When the Pirates scored four runs in the fifth inning, Pitcher Dean and his teammate Joe Medwick came to blows in front of their bench. Accounts of how the quarrel started varied. Result: a severe reprimand and threat of a $5,000 fine for Dean; an impudent prediction by Dean that the New York Giants will win the pennant by "at least seven games...