Word: quarrelling
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Three nations quarrel mightily over tiny Tromelin...
More than one-fourth of U.S. murders are family affairs, and the courts have never been particularly tough on defendants who act in the heat of a domestic quarrel. In recent weeks, however, an array of women have managed to walk away unpunished after killing their husbands or even former husbands...
...further ease worries about inflation, Carter last week minimized the quarrel between the White House and Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burn over the Fed's tight rein on growth in the money supply. The Fed's policy stands to restrain prices, but at the expense of slower economic growth. Claimed Carter of his relations with Burns, despite evidence to the contrary: "We've never had any disagreements on [economic]subjects...
...four days of pleading, Detective Edward Zigo convinced five witnesses that allowing the murder to go unsolved might be seen by outsiders as a sign of the area's deterioration. Police charged a neighborhood handyman, Joseph D'Amico, 48, with the slaying. The alleged cause of the killing: a quarrel over botched repair work he had done on Treglia's sidewalk. > Park Slope was a well-to-do neighborhood of elegant three-story brownstone mansions until their owners began moving to the suburbs. The area's slow decline was partly arrested in the 1960s when middle-class professionals began renovating...
...Trouble follows me," said Billy Martin, and the quarrel between these two perverse and powerful men often distracted people from a team that was full of fascinating conflicts. It was a sullen, gifted and divided ball club. Watching the owner and manager clash, the players eventually came to distrust them both. Stars such as Catcher Thurman Munson and Outfielder Mickey Rivers asked to be traded. The pitchers were often in revolt against the manager and each other. But the Yankees somehow were too talented not to endure. At season's end Martin, for all his sleepless nights, looked like...