Word: feuded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...south-central coast of England. Drilling is being done by British Petroleum, Exxon, Gulf, Texaco, Shell, Mobil and 35 other companies. They will start to produce small amounts later this year and expect to be bringing in 2 million bbl. a day by 1980. But a hot taxation feud between the companies and the Labor government threatens to stall development...
After reading your article on Genevieve Waite, myself and Man on the Moon, I must say I was amazed at your publication trying to create a pseudo feud between us (which other publications have tried to do). I thought your magazine would be above this type of journalism...
Leaked Letters. Behind Villot's December letter-and the Congregation's decision to ignore it-lay a long-smoldering feud. Many conservative Jesuits have protested that during Arrupe's nine-year reign the order has been disintegrating, particularly in discipline and in loyalty to the Pope's teachings. In addition, Cardinal Villot and his aides have passed on to the Pope complaints of conservative bishops throughout the world who were upset by the social radicalism of some of the Jesuits operating in their sees...
...Vivien Kellems, 78, businesswoman and tax rebel; of pneumonia; in Santa Monica, Calif. After severing a brief 1918 marriage-her first and last -Kellems set up a cable-grip factory with a brother in 1927 and built it into a profitable firm. Fiercely combative, she began a 26-year feud with the IRS in 1948 by refusing to collect withholding taxes from her employees, later campaigned against tax discrimination favoring married people over singles, claiming last year that the Government owed her $48,000 illegally collected "just because I have no husband...
With minute accretions, Benny developed a persona that was never more than 39, intolerably stingy-he drove an old, wheezy Maxwell-and cranky beyond repair. When radio grew static he opened a 20-year feud with Fred Allen. Benny put a clothespin on his nose and mimicked Allen's nasal delivery. When Waukegan planted a tree in Benny's honor, Allen asked, "How do you expect it to live when the sap is in Hollywood?" Once when Benny was on the losing end of an exchange, he told Al len, "You wouldn't dare say that...