Word: quarrelling
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Snow's story of the quarrel between Lindemann and Tizard is thoroughly one-sided and "novelistic," Watson-Watt declares: "I suspect that the itch became unbearable and the novelist dug in, involving himself emotionally in the affairs of his subjects, as a novelist must, and arranging the facts accordingly, as a historian must...
This is not to say that a story cannot be literally as well as mythically true. "I will quarrel with no one," said Bishop Pike, "even the clergy of South Georgia, about literal belief in any Biblical narrative. We are open as to all that. But as to the meaning which these various narratives are meant to communicate, all the rest of us value-we do not reject-the myth...
...benefits (from $33 a month to $43), lift the minimum wage (from $1 an hour to $1.15 immediately, then to $1.25 within two years), stretch out unemployment compensation payments, and pass a depressed-areas bill. Said House Republican Minority Leader Charles Halleck of those proposals: "We find no great quarrel with them, but we do not find them earthshaking...
...coming to NATO in 1957 as successor to Britain's Lord Ismay, Spaak has kept aloof from Belgian politics, is not tainted by any association either with last summer's Congo crisis or with the strikes, which cost Belgium an estimated $230 million and reopened the ancient quarrel between the northern Walloons and the southern Flemings. Spaak laid down one condition for his return to Belgian politics: virtually a free hand in the management of Socialist Party affairs. With no other candidate of comparable stature in sight, the Socialists reluctantly agreed. "Citizen Spaak is really very demanding," said...
Some 3,100 years ago, the Aegean island of Chryse (pronounced Cry-see) soared rocketlike into brief prominence in the Mediterranean world. According to Homer's Iliad, what made the mighty Achilles sulk in his tent before Troy was the aftermath of a quarrel over the daughter of Chryses, high priest of the tiny island's temple of Apollo. Another famed Greek warrior, the archer Philoctetes, never got beyond Chryse; stopping off there on his way to Troy, Philoctetes was fatally bitten by a viper loosed on him, according to legend, by a local nymph whose advances...