Word: quarrelling
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...vilest weed that grows." For one thing, he did not, as his sons charged, hire a quack to attend Mrs. O'Neill after Eugene's birth, and so "in all probability was guiltless" of his wife's addiction. Sheaffer concludes that Eugene's standing quarrel was really with his mother, because it was toward her that he felt his truly unatonable guilt: "Had he never been born, the wife and mother would have escaped her 'curse,' they all would have escaped what that 'curse' had done to their lives." Sheaffer fails...
...changed or jammed the locks; as many as 97,000 pupils a day succeeded in entering classrooms. Some parents camped in the schools so that their children could not be locked out again. What began as a labor dispute grew from day to day into a more fundamental quarrel of the teachers' union, politics, race and culture, tearing at the five boroughs of what had always been regarded as the most liberal, tolerant and cosmopolitan city in America. "If it were just a labor dispute," said an aide to the Mayor, "that would be one thing. But there...
...scholars as pedants with bibliomania, while the scholars dismiss the critics as dilettantes with an unprofessional lack of interest in discovering what an author really wrote. In a pair of scathing articles for the New York Review of Books, Critic Edmund Wilson recently added his eminent voice to the quarrel. He suggested that a number of leading literary experts are now engaged in a pointless exercise in scholarship that amounts to an outrageous boondoggle...
Even before he retired as Air Force Chief of Staff nearly four years ago, the bluff, iron-willed flier had become involved in policy scraps that shaded into the political Most notable was his running public quarrel with then Defense Secretary Robert McNamara over whether, as thought, manned bombers should be equally important as missiles in the U.S. deterrent force. In retirement, relieved of the usual military restraints on an officer's political views, he declared that if all else failed, the US had the capability to "bomb the North Vietnamese back to the stone age" and to "destroy...
McGuire does not mind talking about his closest call while flying to Biafra and one might even suspect that he takes a certain delight in it. Scheduled as a crew member on one flight, he transferred to an earlier one partly because of a quarrel with the other flight engineer, but mostly because of "a certain feeling; you get to be like a cat or some kind of an animal sometimes." The flight to which McGuire transferred was supposed to be a dangerous one. Its pilot, since given other duties, carried the sobriquet of "Mr. Magoo." It landed safely...