Word: combativeness
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...argumentation sections in English A, have greatly revived the interest in debating and, at intervals to be decided later, the dormitory teams will test their eloquence. Tentative trips to Exeter and Andover have been arranged and the club will have plenty of opportunity to combat outside teams...
...tickets develops into a wild scramble." The smaller, scurrilous dealers, who have been conducting a surreptitious business since 1922, rubbed their palms and cheered the five black-robed justices, of whom they had probably never heard before last week. Broadway producers and managers sought to reach an agreement to combat any renewed scalping activity...
...Down with War!" chanted the Communists, drubbing and banging on their desks. They were particularly incensed at a clause which would make every man, woman and child in France liable to be drafted for combat or work behind the lines. "This bill proposes," cried a Communist, "nothing less than to make the French war-time slaves to French capital...
Sinner. Since marriage is a state of conflict, the theatres make much of it. Thompson Buchanan presents his version of the cosmic combat in a comedy, the title of which is derived by nicking the heroine's name, Cynthia. It appears that the young lady likes her man without matrimony. An unfortunately discovered roadhouse dalliance leads to her being forced to accept him with the conventional wedding ring. In Act II, emerges the conflict between business and wife-petting. Husband (Allan Dine-hart) woos his Mexican oil wells. Wife (Claiborne Foster) languishes in the company of an artist friend...
...whom two Mexican "very, very courteous" police sergeants a month ago had escorted out of Mexico, over the Guatemala border?Pasquale Diaz, Bishop of Tabasco, now exile. Newspapermen marveled at how, in the serenity of Catholic priesthood, this man's face had acquired its strained lines of truculence, combat and domination. He is a Jalisco Indian, born 1876 in Guadaljara, Mexico; trained by Jesuits in Spain and France; ordained priest in 1899, bishop in 1923. His face showed no benignity save when he smiled. In the civilian clothes that he wore? soft hat, grey suit, knitted tie?he looked like...