Word: quarreling
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...complicated, belated and awkward exercise, but it should be done-done with a clear historical eye, without pity or jingo or other illusions. It would mitigate an injustice and might even improve the nation's collective mental health. It would help to settle America's tedious quarrel with itself. Americans should be able to repeat Robert Lowell's line in a calm inward murmur: "My eyes have seen what my hand...
Mitterrand began gravitating toward the socialist left as his quarrel with De Gaulle grew sharper and he needed broader support for his fight against the general's "dictatorship." It was then that Mitterrand decided to become a spokesman of the opposition...
...Christianity: I was born a Christian and will doubtless die in the same state. But in the meantime, the Christian explanation is so rich in resonances. Still, I have an irreconcilable quarrel with the church's complicity throughout the centuries with an established order that I abhor. And I believe that the misfortune of our generation is to have forgotten the primacy of reason...
...quarrel with Rashke's research. His information comes from over 25,000 pages of trial transcripts and pretrial depositions, FBI reports and Congressional hearings. He conducted scores of interviews and "created" none of his dialogue...
...Reagan's decision to put Vice President George Bush in charge of "crisis management," though precisely what that meant remained tantalizingly imprecise. Nevertheless Bush's appointment pitted Haig against the White House staff and imperiled, at least temporarily, the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. It was a quarrel that could hardly have come at a worse time, for even as it was boiling along, a major crisis to be managed loomed on the horizon-the confrontation between the government and the independent union movement in Poland...