Word: quarrelling
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...Japanese were finally able to renegotiate their treaty with Britain in 1894, then with the other Western powers. The same year, proud of their nation's new status, they picked a quarrel with China over disputed rights in the feeble kingdom of Korea. They attacked without warning, and won a quick victory. Ten years later, they inflicted the same fate on Russia...
Montana Wildlife Biologists John and Frank Craighead, perhaps the foremost authorities on the grizzly, insist that the answer is for the Park Service to drop its "forever wild" doctrine, at least as far as bears are concerned. In the early 1970s, at the height of their quarrel with the federal authorities, the 66-year-old twin brothers angrily quit their grizzly studies in Yellowstone. Says John: "It's fine to say that you want a pristine, pre-Columbian setting, but it won't work in Yellowstone [which had 2.4 million visitors last year]. Man is a definite part...
...April 6th article does not explicitly tell when the statement it cites was made the impression of currency is given by the use of the phrase "he says" and inclusion of the alleged quotation along with statements resulting from a Crimson survey conducted "this week." I have no quarrel with the content of the comments attributed to me. They are statements I might have made. But I am very disturbed by their attribution, because I was away from Cambridge and did not have any contact with the Crimson during the relevant period...
...nasty, divisive reformers' Did he dig with the same foot as they pestilent fellow Luther' a dirty-minded man. And as a great despiser of women, if I recollect properly, though it's years since I read his blundering, coarse-fibred romance about the giants. But we mustn't quarrel; we must live together in holy charity. I've seen Dear Clem since last we talked, and he says it's all right for me to stay. I wouldn't fuss him about it if I were you He seems to have great things on his mind...
...family had sat in the same pew for a hundred years-except on winter Sundays when the snow was good for skiing." From childhood, recalls Gurney, 52, "I was the guy who rebelled, not in action, but by what I said at the dinner table. I had a constant quarrel with that world, its prejudice, stuffiness and closedness. Yet I found it congenial; it gave a comforting sense of continuity, and the club food was good...