Word: quarreling
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...invasion with force, a decision in which he unhappily concurred. In London people began digging trenches to provide shelter from the expected air raids. "How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is," Chamberlain said in a radio speech to the nation, "that we should be digging trenches . . . here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing...
...thus became one of hundreds of gun victims killed in the first week of May. They were shot accidentally or in an impulsive moment of anger, killed by friends, wives or husbands; they took their own lives or came to a violent end in a street quarrel or drug dispute. What they have in common is that they are all victims of an American epidemic: hundreds more like them will die this week, and the week after. See NATION...
...difference two days make. George Bush rode into Brussels last Monday the "Nowhere President," criticized as a dithering leader without vision, too passive, too reactive, too unimaginative to compete with Mikhail Gorbachev. In town to celebrate NATO's 40th anniversary, Bush seemed destined to preside over a nasty family quarrel, if not the alliance's demise...
...have a lovers' quarrel going on with America. If it were a grudge fight, I would go to Canada. But it's a lovers' quarrel. And civil disobedience is very much a part of our religious and historical tradition: the abolitionists, the suffragists, Martin Luther King...
...temperature is only 68 degrees F, but Vermont hopes its action will send a message to the rest of the U.S. It will certainly send a disturbing message to Detroit, since more than 75% of cars sold have air conditioners, and all those use CFCs. While automakers have no quarrel with the need to find substitute coolants, they doubt they can meet Vermont's timetable...