Word: quarrelling
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...weeks, in private chats, in special sessions, owlish, bustling Paul-Henri Spaak has been sounding out three squabbling NATO partners-Britain, Greece and Turkey-begging them to settle their agonizing, paralyzing quarrel over Cyprus, which has all but broken up NATO's defenses in the Eastern Mediterranean. He was not even able to get the participants to agree to sit down together at a conference table...
...would warn his soldiers, "Better to advance and risk being killed by the enemy than to retreat and be sure of being burned alive"-carried on his work. He imported British soldiers to train his army, welcomed the schools of French and British missionaries. But his successors began to quarrel with the growing French settlement. In 1895 France finally took over...
Agonizing Quarrel. Greece sent no representative at all; Greek Cypriots shuttered their shops in protest, their schoolchildren paraded in the streets shouting
With the "partners" on Cyprus sharply at odds, and Greece muttering about quitting NATO, Paul-Henri Spaak, NATO's Secretary-General, flew to Athens, offered a proposal: a conference of all parties in a new attempt to solve the agonizing quarrel. Accepting, Greece for the first time in three bitter years showed itself willing to sit down with Turkey though denying it is any of Turkey's business...
Where he does generalize about Harvard, Boroff has a tendency to be pleasingly vapid. For instance, "students and faculty are united on one article of faith: the greatness of the Harvard idea." Not too many people would quarrel with that, but then what is "the Harvard idea?" Commenting on a certain lack of intellectual daring, Boroff says: "The trend is toward synthesis, possibly encouraged by the electric and integrative character of the General Education courses." To this reader, it would seem rather that Harvard tends to be overly analytic, despite Gen-Ed packages, but why, anyway, should synthesis mitigate zeal...