Word: quarrelling
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...Congo) the use of national armies would be unpolitic or unsafe. Nor is its function as an international forum negligible, though much derided. "World opinion" may be an elusive force on whose wooing much effort can be wasted. But the U.N. remains a place where participants in a quarrel can be quickly summoned, where alarum can be raised, attitudes judged, responsibility or irresponsibility exposed, pressure exerted. In short, it is a place where, despite perils and failures, men and groups engage in politics-an enterprise essential to peace and civilization...
...with ships and marines lying twelve miles offshore, finally concluded that the Dominicans were not about to settle their own quarrel. Arriving at a predawn meeting of government and U.C.N. negotiators at a private home, Arturo Morales Carrión, an assistant U.S. Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, and U.S. Vice Consul David Shaw moved in and virtually took command. They alternately guided, cajoled and stormed. Government negotiators at last agreed to a formula in favor of a seven-member Council of State. President Balaguer would have until Feb. 27 to resign with dignity, would be empowered...
...master stroke that, as he boasted, would assure "peace with honor, peace for our time." Too often, Author Macleod's biography soft-pedals Chamberlain's naiveté and glosses over his smugness and arrogance, such as his unfeeling verdict on Hitler's dismemberment of Czechoslovakia: "A quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing...
Switching from tirades to togetherness with all the abruptness of young lovers making up a quarrel, the Pennsylvania Railroad, biggest in the nation, and the third-ranking New York Central* last week said that they had decided to ask the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to merge. If the deal goes through, it will be among the largest mergers in history. The resulting giant would tower far above all other U.S. railroads in assets ($4.2 billion), trackage (20,372 miles from Boston to St. Louis) -and debts ($1.3 billion...
...astonishing life that he can fairly be called one of the few originals now writing. It is a world in which God and the devil are constantly in contention, in which imps, cabalistic mysteries and ancient Talmudic heresies are as much a part of the passing show as a quarrel in the market place. The best of these eleven stories tells how Satan ruins the nicest girl in town. Satan contrives that Lise should marry a brilliant, homely scholar who is a secret disciple of Sabbatai Zevi, the False Messiah who taught that the world must become wholly corrupt before...