Word: fractious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Congress recessed last week for its own ten-day version of the Labor Day weekend, its direction so uncertain, its temper so fractious that few would be so bold as to forecast its final record...
Wayward Slobs. Many programmers are fractious fellows who delight in disdaining the button-down graces of corporate life, such as wearing a necktie to work. "We give management a hard time," says Programmer Armin Bendiner, 27, of Washington, D.C. "They're annoyed because they're at the mercy of us wayward slobs...
...kind of battle is beginning in South Viet Nam. It is not a battle of bullets but of ballots. Next Sept. 3, the country's 5.2 million eligible voters will be able to select their first President since Ngo Dinh Diem, who was assassinated in 1963. In a fractious, war-racked country, a weak victor could prove disastrous. A sensible leader, by establishing a popularly based government, could do much to assure stability, security and a democratic destiny for South Viet...
Growing Disorder. Mao seems more worried than ever over the fragmentation of the Cultural Revolution that he unleashed nine months ago. The Red Guards, who were his first chosen instruments for rooting out his opponents, have become so unruly and fractious that chances are Mao could not rein them in all by himself; in any event, he appears too fearful of a rebuff to try. As for the party, Mao quite openly distrusts it, fearing that the loyalty of many party members still belongs to his archenemy, President Liu Shao-chi. Mao had little choice but to place...
...black pajama-style suit, and Milton Obote was all smiles. Standing in the Ugandan Parliament before a carved panel that depicted crested cranes, elephants, anteaters and gazelles, the three men lifted their champagne glasses in a toast that is often heard but all too seldom practiced these days in fractious Africa. "To unity!" cried the Presidents of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda...