Word: quarrelling
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While visiting his brother, he got involved in a quarrel with his brother's girlfriend, who seized a butcher knife and stabbed him in the abdomen. Suspect arrested...
...affable. Eva, on the other hand, is introverted--slightly deaf, she is able to turn off the world by turning off her hearing aid. But she cannot extinguish a constant stream of disturbing flashbacks that remind her of years spent in Nazi concentration camps. Together, the husband and wife quarrel about selling the house. He sees it as a pragmatic move, but she cannot part with the memories and dreams...
...port for Poland's independent unions. In a communique last December, it even warned the Kremlin of "extremely grave consequences" in the event of a Soviet invasion-meaning that the P.C.I, might break with Moscow altogether. Last week, in a rare public display of a Communist family quarrel, the Soviet Communist Party was revealed as having blasted Berlinguer in no uncertain terms. The Italian weekly Panorama published a confidential letter from the Soviet Cen tral Committee, obviously with the imprimatur of Leonid Brezhnev, rebuking the Italians for showing too much solidarity with Solidarity...
...rhythm of the seasons. This double vision gives a peculiar intensity to many of her stories; beneath their bright, sometimes ephemeral surfaces, implacable forces can be felt moving, well beyond human control. Sometimes they break out. In The Storm, a husband and wife visiting an Italian villa find their quarrel interrupted by a ferocious thundershower: "The attack begun, the clouds brought up their artillery; lightning, splitting the sky, shimmered across the flagstones of the terrace." Despite its fury, the storm is not malign; it subtly changes the marriage into something both partners can live with...
...back to some of the pro-Constitution positions that James Madison expressed in the Federalist Papers. Said Madison: "The federal Constitution forms a happy combination . . the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, and the local and particular to the state governments." That created the freedom to quarrel about which interests were great, which aggregate, which particular, which local. Americans have been arguing about combination" has them ever never since, taken but place. the "happy The federal system was messy from the beginning. Literate Americans were sharply aware of the confusion of powers the Constitution would create. States...