Word: bickering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undergraduate dissatisfaction with the clubs centers around the undemocratic "bicker week" method of "formal interview" and election. Ziegler says. The 20 per cent who are left out of this "major part of the pleasant routine life of the Junior and Senior year" are too small a group to make their self-conscious situation bearable, in contrast to the "social security offered by the House plan at Yale and Harvard...
...desire to name one-third of the Senate himself, instead of merely confirming the hand-picked appointees of the Premier and Cabinet who hitherto have filled the 53 appointive Senate seats. If & when his youthful Majesty undertakes to carry out this idea Egyptians will have something bigger. & better to bicker over...
...return. He is haled into a divorce court, tortured for testimony by opposing counsel. By judicial decree he spends eight unhappy months with the mother who has married her well-meaning paramour, returns to his father who is also planning to remarry. When he falls ill, his parents bicker over his bed, discover that neither wants him much, are relieved when the doctor suggests a military school. There Bobby is advised by another divorced boy" to accept the gifts and less & less frequent visits of his parents with equanimity, to "wait...
While other nations bicker with each other across the Atlantic, the United States is busy untangling a delicate problem in the Western Hemisphere. At the Montevideo conference which began Sunday, Secretary of State Cordel Hull has as his purpose not only the establishment of amicable relationships among the Latin American countries, but the revival of a Pan-American Trade Union, once mutually beneficial, but which has in the last decade been allowed to die a lingering death...
...those new rules against all night parking are really bothering you," Budd volunteered, "don't bicker words with the authorities. Just put some plauks up the staircases of your Houses and drive the cars into your rooms at night; then the students can go stand in the gutter or about the campus and nothing can be done about...