Слово "controversy". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

But of all their controversies, none was so bitter as the one that took place over the windmill.

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.

of an extremely important controversy and discussion taking place.

But I was wrong in thinking that the religious controversy was quashed; it flamed up again after dinner on Brideshead’s last evening. ‘…What papa said was,

The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that!

What greatly strengthens such a suspicion is the fact that this controversy between two ill-matched antagonists—at a period, moreover, laud it as we may, when personal influence had far more weight than now—remained for years undecided, and came to a close only with the death of the party occupying the disputed soil. The mode of his death, too, affects the mind differently in our day, from what it did a century and a half ago.