Word: animus
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Australia was omitted, not because of any Roosevelt animus toward vineyardists down under, but because the President's quotas are based on the wine exports of countries to the U. S. before Prohibition. At that time Australia's export trade in wine was an almost invisible trickle...
...Your animus against the President is becoming more evident and is displeasing to many people. I think that the continuance of the useful place that you have made for yourselves will depend very largely upon your ability to present the news without prejudice or bias. . . . R. H. CLARK...
...Conservative Party is traditionally the arch-Imperial party of Canada. But in this election Mr. Bennett has wobbled too. Of course neither of Canada's suave and astute bachelors has actually called the other "traitor," any more than Messrs. Hoover and Smith called each other names, but the animus, the insinuation has been there...
...Senate sentiment for and against confirmation of this appointment divided so evenly that the result seemed to fluctuate within the narrowest margin of votes. All week long critics of Judge Parker flayed him for his Red Jacket coal case decision upholding a "yellow dog" labor contract, for his political animus toward Negroes. All week long his friends lauded his character, his integrity, his fitness for the highest bench...
...absurd to think I have any religious prejudice. I have none. I was bred a Unitarian, but belong to no church. As for the Germans, yes, during the war I was against Germany. I was a loyal American. But since then I've held no animus. And I did vote for Hoover. But if Mr. Pulitzer were hiring a managing editor on account of his vote, I expect he wouldn't have hired...