Word: quarrels
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...within the P.L.O.'s ranks. The rebels were angry with Arafat for having left Beirut and for taking what they regarded as too moderate a line on future negotiations with Israel. They resented his talks with King Hussein of Jordan a short time earlier and his growing quarrel with Assad...
Neither I nor any other veteran of the First World War can quarrel honorably with the Colonel's sincere pacifism. But his choice of a simile, "We must be as impersonal as a surgeon with his knife," seems to me singularly unhappy. It is an insult to the medical profession...
...stake is information that may shed light on the question of why the doomed 747 strayed so disastrously into Soviet territory, and also on the bitter U.S.-Soviet quarrel over who was at fault. The two black boxes-actually, they are bright orange-are small (5 in. by 9 in. by 15 in.) but heavily armored to withstand explosion, heat and pressure. Their tapes of conversations in the airliner's cockpit could show whether the crew had any warning before a Soviet Su-15 interceptor knocked Flight 007 out of the sky, killing all 269 aboard...
...George Sibbald's play Brothers, the McMillan family artery has been badly ruptured, and the threat of an irreparable clot is imminent. Beset by internal divisiveness, the McMillans quarrel and argue incessantly; the entire second act is an unbroken family battle. Superficially, Brothers seems little more than a soap-opera amalgamation of labor unrest, family feuds, and terminal illness, but fine writing and acting elevate it beyond the level of daytime serial...
Peggy Ashcroft thinks of Gielgud as one of the last of the Edwardians, not just in age, but in temperament. It is not a judgment with which he will quarrel. He fondly remembers the London of his youth as a bright and magical city. "I do think with great nostalgia of the old days," he says "But I wouldn't want them back. I'd rather be taken back to a somewhat later period when I first saw my name in lights on marquee and said, 'I'm going to be star...