Word: quarrelling
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...under way. Budget reform was progressing, he said, and there would be welfare and tax-reform schemes soon. Important, too, Mondale reminded his listeners, was a change in attitude in Washington. Overseas, there was a policy of activism, changes of attitude and a reinvigoration of American ideals. Many would quarrel with the latter assessment, but that was the way Mondale...
...those changes include disrupting society. That assumption underlies her argument that the Columbia students who took over a building in 1968 were profoundly misguided; the same assumption underlies her argument that freer sexual mores do not provide the emotional support of a good old-fashioned marriage. Each time, her quarrel with "youth"--Trilling is rather free with generalizations--comes down to her fear that it threatens her structure, that its radical demands will destroy the institutions she values so highly...
...shouldn't think they're here to get hold of those levers--to be Very Important People not only on their own turf but also in the society at large, to struggle with the rulers to rule. With this time-honored American political tradition, incidentally, I have no special quarrel; I merely object to the prosecution of this struggle in symbolic terms which get the civil liberties we should all cherish stepped on. Showing political muscle by narrowing the range of free expression, that kind of symbolic behavior is, I submit, a real loss of liberty for all citizens...
...that Barnes was arrested, Dellacroce Confidant Guido ("Dolls") DeCurtis was shot to death on Manhattan's East 28th Street in full view of passers-by and a policeman. The officer arrested a suspect, Canadian Joseph Djaija, 26. Some law enforcement officials believe DeCurtis was killed because of a private quarrel over gambling rights in the Astoria section of Queens. But Dellacroce was suspicious and sent henchmen to Montreal, an important link in Galante's narcotics network. The avengers pushed around several Galante associates but found no proof that he had ordered DeCurtis' murder...
Galante may have an edge in the quarrel, partly because of his forceful personality. Says New York Police Lieutenant Remo Franceschini: "He has people supporting him right across the U.S. Dellacroce is a little provincial. His base has always been Little Italy, and I don't think he has the will or the intellect to control a large group...