Word: quarrelling
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...kind of molting puma, long in claw and tooth, snarling at a world that is not to her liking. Wanton she may be, but she gets no joy out of it; her eye is out for the main chance, for social advancement rather than sexual gratification. Her quarrel with the overseer of the cigarette factory ends in no mere slap; she tears the poor creature's bodice and carves a bloody cross on her back. Her seduction of Don José is more challenge than submission, and when he ultimately kills her for her faithlessness, she dies...
...have some quarrel with this generation of radicals, which goes back to pre-Galbraith views. I have always thought that the Pentagon was more responsible for Vietnam than the Capitol. I'm saying that the Left, generally speaking, lets the Pentagon off the hook, by saying they're the deus ex machine , that they've been manipulated by the capitalists. I would rather put the blame right on the Pentagon...
...leader, Ustinov could not restrain himself from a coy, anachronistic gag. "John Hancock, sir, there can be no insurance of anything while he is active," he sniffed. At more serious moments, Ustinov dismissed the Boston Massacre as "a minor incident" and, when queried as to "the core of the quarrel between the Americans and your government," replied: "You regard it as a quarrel; I regard it more as slight friction in the nursery...
...most bitter feuding is between the Marxist Communist Party of India, abbreviated as the CPI (M), and a breakaway pro-Peking faction, the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party, or Naxalites. Their quarrel began in 1967 over land reform. The government had imposed a limit of 25 acres per person on rural land holdings, but many feudal aristocrats had got around the measure by parceling out land to armies of relatives. After court attempts to untangle the land-reform problem failed. Charu Mazumdar, a member of the Marxist group, instigated a peasant revolt in the Naxalbari region of West Bengal. The leaders...
...smartest; I said I was the greatest") was suddenly switched to 1-A. Rather too quickly for the law, Ali was made a Muslim "minister" in order to claim a clerical exemption. He also infuriated thousands of Americans by ingenuously remarking, "I ain't got no quarrel with those Viet Congs." A year later, he was convicted of draft evasion, fined $10,000 and sentenced to five years in prison, pending appeal. "What can you give me, America?" said Ali after the W.B.A. hastily stripped him of his title. "You want me to go fight a war against people...