Word: quarrelling
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When the dispute began to threaten America's effective participation in the 1964 Olympics, President Kennedy intervened. He called on both sides to cooperate and apointed General Douglas MacArthur to arbitrate the quarrel...
...from socialism and mental telepathy to vegetarianism and teetotalism, and against Mammon-variously embodied as Privilege, the Trusts, the House of Morgan, the Press, etc. As monument, the book is touchingly human. As autobiography, it is something less; success in that elusive art is achieved only by those whose quarrel has been with themselves rather than the world. Sinclair, who has quarreled with everybody else, has never found the slightest reason to criticize himself. But the book is a naively honest and endearing record...
...time, was neighboring Pakistan, long one of the U.S.'s staunchest friends, threatening to turn to a policy of "positive independence," and sending Foreign Minister Mohammed Ali, an amiable old friend of the U.S.'s, off to Peking for conferences. Most important of all, here was the quarrel -no longer discreet or polite-between Moscow and Peking. This split, as it was at last being called, might still require the two great Communist powers to back each other's moves, but they no longer seemed to be coordinating them in advance (see THE WORLD...
...mean that Evil or not, a stage imposes some detachment on its audience, and that we can only overcome this detachment by seeing the play as "shifting states of mind" with which we can sympathize--"immediate, second-to-second perceptions and judgments," Mr. Babe more aptly puts it. Our quarrel, if any, is that Mr. Babe thinks we in the audience can enter directly into the play, and I that we can do so only gradually, through perceiving ourselves in the mind behind the play. Harvard audiences may be overintellectual, but more to the point, they haven't been living...
...moment, Touré's overriding concern is to end his quarrel with France's Charles de Gaulle, who still smarts over the way Guinea rejected membership in the French Community and chose independence in 1958. In retaliation, departing French civil servants yanked phones from the walls, smashed light fixtures, and dumped Guinea's records into the Atlantic. Guinea also quit the franc zone, to its near ruin. Now it hopes to win readmission when a French delegation arrives in Guinea soon for talks. Expected price: indemnification for French-owned banks, insurance companies, trading firms and bauxite mines...