Word: animus
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...religious, philosophical and idealist interpretations. What is the harm in knowing how much real estate George Washington possessed? And why not admit that Robert Morris was an iron manufacturer and a West Indian trader? If we know these facts, and others like them, we can begin to understand the animus of Jacksonian, Populist, Bryanite and Bull Moose debtor classes against many things that have been done in the name of the Constitution. The economic interpretation is one key to history. And mark it well...
...Animus. In every way, by feeling, by training, by detailed experience, Isoroku Yamamoto has all his life been bent to one task: defeat the U.S. and Britain in the Pacific...
...unfortunately Williams spends very little time on what he knows best; he has axes to grind and grudges to settled, and he can't seem to forget them for much more than a page at a time. He tells his version of air power's growth with a animus of a persecuted fanatic who is at long last able to shout "I told you so!" For Williams was one of that group of airmen who foresaw the coming role of air power many year ago, and insisted on an intensive program of offensive and defensive preparation. In German, Italy...
...home in Tokyo, Ambassador Horinouchi's Embassy counselor, big, pleasantly pompous Yakicniro Suma, complemented his chief's words by publicly regretting the U. S. animus, and especially the U. S. Navy's, towards Japan. The toast among young U. S. naval officers, he said, is: "Remember the Panay...
...compromise bill, such as Connally of Texas, Bankhead of Alabama, the President's personal friend, Radcliffe of Maryland. Although many of the opposition undoubtedly hoped to use the Court bill as a means of inflicting a defeat on Franklin Roosevelt, among such men as these, charges of personal animus only helped to create bitterness. Whether or not that bitterness would be effective in defeating the bill, it was of first-rate significance on its own account. Every day the bitter debate continued was a blow on a wedge splitting the hitherto solid ranks of Administration supporters...