The disagreement over her price — he offered $30 for services she thought they had agreed were worth more than 25 times that — set off a tense early morning quarrel in the hallway of the luxury hotel involving the woman, another prostitute, Colombian police officers arguing on the women's behalf and American federal agents who tried but failed to keep the matter from escalating.
Who could have imagined that it would one day vanish into an aisle in the supermarket, or re-emerge as a kind of supermarket itself?" I'm grateful for the reviewer's privilege of an early copy of "Quarrel & Quandary".
A new round in the longstanding quarrel began earlier in the week when Fu Ying, the vice minister of foreign affairs, told the chief Filipino diplomat in Beijing that Manila was "severely damaging the atmosphere of the bilateral relations between China and the Philippines".
He no longer sits in on the trial — at an earlier hearing, he quarrelled with a tombarolo, or grave robber, who was serving as a prosecution witness — but he likes to chat with reporters outside the courtroom.
Early tales include a furious quarrel with a local Anglican vicar, both of them hollering from tombstones in the parish churchyard.
Because of an obscure family quarrel, Alessandro's early sojourn in Rome was interrupted by a short prison term under Pope Innocent VIII.
Police were called to the scene of a domestic quarrel in the early hours of 8 February, where Rihanna – then in a relationship with Brown – was found with injuries to her face.
However, early in the campaign he quarreled with Jérôme Bonaparte, king of Westphalia, and was removed from the army and ordered back to Paris.
The countries have quarreled since the early 1990s about the interpretation of the Soviet period, which the Kremlin has tried to portray as a liberation from Nazism but many Estonians, and Estonian officials, recall as an ordeal of occupation, subjugation, economic stagnation and state-sponsored terrorism.
Last fall they were quarreling over voter registration, early voting laws and how the debates should be staged between their respective clients, President Obama and Mitt Romney.
