Word: feuds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...village spinster, in her later years became cross, sharp-tongued, quarrelsome and grasping, with long black hair, broken, irregular teeth (mostly false) and dirty hands and fingernails. Their brother Austin married Susan, their school girl friend, a tavernkeeper's daughter. Susan soon became involved in a lifelong feud with sister-in-law Lavinia...
...umpteenth time Sister Elizabeth Kenny, the Australian nurse who developed the Kenny treatment for infantile paralysis, last week threatened to go home. Her running feud with orthodox medical men has long enlivened the press (TIME, Sept. 27, 1943; June 26). And her forthright disposition has earned her the nicknames "The Duchess" and "Madam Queen." Not satisfied when doctors accept her methods, she insists that they also accept her theories-theories that many experts say lack proof...
Onward Destiny. Together with Argentina's Government, Colonel Perón inherited Argentina's feud with the U.S. State Department. President Castillo had been a great Yankee-hater. Relations grew worse when Castillo was overthrown. Some of the new Spiritual Renovators looked not merely anti-U.S., but pro-Axis. U.S. newspapers began to cry that they were setting up a full-fledged Fascist state in the Western Hemisphere...
...Chinese junket removed Don from Washington in time to avert an explosive feud inside WPB (TIME, Sept. 4). Otherwise, the trip's purpose was something of a mystery. But Donald Nelson had bustled happily for 16 days through Chungking's mud and rain, conferred and consulted dynamically with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his advisers. The patient Chinese, even after seven years of war, were polite-in fact, they were so courteous and cooperative that Don Nelson fell in love with China. If the President will only allow it, he would rather like to go back to China...
Growth of an Empire. The feud with labor which Chandler inherited from his father-in-law and pursued relentlessly in the Times kept Los Angeles, until recent years, a strike-ridden city. It also kept the city open-shop, helped Chandler at tract the aircraft and other industries. He promoted vast Los Angeles real-estate developments, wide boulevards, Hollywood, the $60,000,000 artificial harbor at San Pedro, the Coliseum and Hollywood Bowl. Spreading his power and empire through out the Southwest, he became one of the nation's biggest landowners, one of the West's richest...