Word: quarrelling
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Under the new rules, there is unlikely to be any reprise of the kind of quarrel that recently titillated the nation. Last December, J. Edgar Hoover said that Senator Robert F. Kennedy had been informed of all bugging endeavors while he was Attorney General, and Kennedy retorted that the FBI director had failed to tell him about a number of cases. Now Clark has served notice that he wants to know about all bugging, in advance...
...Moslems are beef eaters, and they outrage their Hindu neighbors by slaughtering cows, which Hindus consider sacred. President Husain, whose own wife still wears a veil and lives in seclusion as the Prophet recommended, hopes to relax the vexing tensions between the two religious groups. "We must talk less, quarrel less, work hard and ever harder, and hold together," he said after his election. It was a sensible formula not only for India's Hindu-Moslem troubles but for the country's other problems as well...
Procedural Quarrel...
Riley, ranking college YR in the state and a delegate who did not walk out, blamed the tumultuous finish upon a "procedural quarrel against certain Harvard individuals' handling of the convention...
Ethical Contribution. Dodd does not quarrel with the factual assertions in the committee report; he objects only to the interpretation the committee puts on them. In an interview, Dodd almost airily dismissed the charges against him. He said he had thought the contribution from International Latex-which he received in cash from a company official-had been collected from individuals. "I should have told him to go back and get everyone to write out checks," he conceded. The double billing for travel expenses? Merely "sloppy bookkeeping" by one of the four disaffected aides who instigated the investigation by filching Dodd...