Word: quarrelled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation which dropped on the citizens of Japan the devastating atomic bomb makes itself ridiculous when it hesitates at any means of assuring the peoples under the yoke of our potential enemies that we have no quarrel with them...
During his 54 years of life, Author Hearn seldom lacked inspiration of one sort or another: he managed to quarrel with just about everybody he met, for long periods slept with a loaded pistol under his pillow. Born in the Ionian Islands in 1850 of mixed Anglo-Irish and Maltese stock, he emigrated to the U.S. at 19, slept in Manhattan doorways and vacant lots, finally went West to Cincinnati in 1871 and got a job on the Enquirer. Color-conscious Cincinnati readers liked his lush accounts of the seamier side of Queen City life, but were rocked...
Harvard Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr.* (The Age of Jackson) has a serious quarrel to pick with his fellow scholars and with the teaching of history in U.S. schools. Too many of them, he thinks, have become victims of "historical senti-mentalism." Their view of the past has become clouded by a vogue of optimism, their work distorted by a wave of wishful thinking and a burning determination to push moral issues under the rug. In the current issue of Partisan Review, Professor Schlesinger states his case...
Arrogant and imperturbable as ever, Lewis surveyed the idle coal fields and kept his own counsel. He drove his Cadillac over to White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. (acquiring a ticket for speeding on the way) to attend negotiations with the northern, and western coal operators. John Lewis had no quarrel with them over the miners' welfare-fund payments; they had paid theirs faithfully, even sending along $3,000,000 last week despite the strike...
...seemed to resent his pal's success. An inarticulate, heavy-boned man with thick-knuckled peasant hands, Barsov found himself all but ignored. In his diary he noted: "As always, all-knowing and haughty to the point of stupidity, [Pirogov] insulted me repeatedly . . . Today's quarrel with Pirogov made clear my dependency upon...