controversy

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During a controversy of this character, Jeems Cunningham testified that his mother spelled it Cunningham on deeds and things, but she was really a Coningham, she was an uncertain speller, a seldom reader, and was given to looking far away sometimes when she sat on the front gallery in the evening.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. ... The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that!  (source) Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953

The warm-blooded controversy had raged for fifteen years, before a new perception of dinosaurs as quick-moving, active animals was accepted—but not without lasting animosities.†  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

Langdon certainly understood the controversy.†  (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

We're aware of the controversies surrounding the Harrises and Klebolds.†  (source) Misty Bernall, She Said Yes, 1999

While all this was going on, the controversy over Joe Odom and the Hamilton-Turner House continued unabated.†  (source) John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 1994

Maybe the reason war and all that other stuff went away is that there are no more controversies, no disagreements, no people demanding change.†  (source) Scott Westerfeld, Uglies, 2005

There has been much controversy regarding the 126th Annual Peace Festival due to the emperor's illness, but Prince Kaito has told the press that the festival will continue as scheduled and that he hopes it might bring some joy in this otherwise tragic time.†  (source) Marissa Meyer, Cinder, 2012

It was the cause of bitter controversies.†  (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

Aiming for controversy, are we?†  (source) John Green, Looking for Alaska, 2005

In March 1995 I received a call from an editor at Outside magazine proposing that I join a guided Everest expedition scheduled to depart five days hence and write an article about the mushrooming commercialization of the mountain and the attendant controversies.†  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air, 1997

There was some controversy over the burial, because of Megan's supposed role in the child's death.†  (source) Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train, 2015

Everyone loved the princesses because of their great beauty, their gentle ways, and their ability to settle all controversies fairly and reasonably.†  (source) Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth, 1961