Word: spats
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...same time that Harvard expands into Allston, it cannot afford to compromise its relations with Cambridge. Summers never mentioned Cambridge explicitly during his address, even though the University is currently in an unpleasant spat with the city over the development of a new modern art museum on Memorial Drive. According to Cambridge Mayor Anthony D. Galluccio, Summers has had a good start in his relationship with Cambridge leadership, but Galluccio said he would have appreciated a more explicit commitment in the speech to improving town-gown relations...
According to a police report, Byrne saw Davis, Trombly and friends drinking alcohol in public. The report states that when Byrne apaproached the group and asked them to leave, Trombly, who is of legal drinking age, spat and made offensive remarks...
...building about to faint. Medics had to keep moving the morgue. Even the rescuers had to be rescued from the hidden caves, the shifting rubble, the filthy air. When the rains came Thursday night the peril merely increased, as the ash turned to porridge and the fires hissed and spat...
...secret memos, for example, were supposedly written in green ink, which only C could use). But Spedding became a rather public spy, even though his photograph was never published until his death. The infamous Soviet mole Kim Philby revealed his name in 1971 during a Moscow-London spy spat. Spedding later reorganized the post-cold war service, focusing on his specialty, the Middle East. In 1984 he reputedly helped thwart an Abu Nidal attack on Queen Elizabeth when she was on a visit to Jordan...
...most of Western Europe suffered. The rest of the world, in other words, has more reasons than the U.S. for wishing to consign the war to the history texts. But Americans seem unwilling to do that, and not just when they buy books and go the movies: amid the spat between Europeans and Americans over the death penalty, it has been striking how many American commentators have said, in effect: "We rescued you in the 1940s. How dare you criticize...