Word: quarrelling
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...Cruising off San Diego aboard the nuclear carrier U.S.S. Enterprise at week's end, he proposed an oceanic end to the war. Addressing Hanoi-as well as the voters at home-he declared: "You force us to fight, but you have only to say the word for our quarrel to be buried beneath the waves." The President suggested that "a neutral ship on a neutral sea would be as good a meeting place as any" for the U.S. and North Viet Nam to begin negotiations-"so long as one did not insist that the other walk on water...
...different turn and declined. One pointed comparison: in 1942, despite segregation, Joe Louis happily served because "what's wrong with my country ain't nothing Hitler can fix;" in 1967, despite great progress toward desegregation, Cassius Clay refuses to serve because "I don't have no quarrel with those Viet Congs...
...remain jobless-a worrisome 2.4% of a labor force accustomed to full employment -the ranks of newly unemployed are now growing only moderately. Because fewer workers are turning out about the same amount of goods, output per man has climbed. But amid rising prices and escalating taxes, few Britons quarrel with Harold Wilson's forecast: 'This is going to be a difficult winter...
Vitamins for the Vigil. Thieu was measured and conciliatory in his reply, offering to bring Tarn Chau and Tri Quang together to mediate what the government regarded as an internal Buddhist quarrel. But Tri Quang refused to meet with Tarn Chau under any conditions created by the government. Instead, dismissing his followers, he settled his robes for an indefinite protest vigil underneath a tree in front of the palace. Each night followers brought fresh changes of robes and food, tea, milk, vitamins, dextrose mixed with water and aspirin. The palace guards permitted Tri Quang to use their gate toilet...
...special effect of a child describing some monstrous crime accidentally observed and only half understood, the special fascination of domestic detail mixed with horror and history-for instance, the dining room table around which her father habitually gathered the Politburo. Svetlana's mother shot herself after a trivial quarrel with Stalin. Her mother's relatives and intimates were victims of her father's paranoid suspicions, and "the life of almost everyone was cut short in some tragic fashion" -prison, firing squad, madness. When the Germans captured Svetlana's half brother Yakov during the war, Stalin refused...