Word: cankering
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...accomplish a nefarious purpose. . . . The honeymoon of this lying, corroding crowd of murderers of character is over. Their swill barrel is empty-they have scraped the bottom of the garbage can. . . . Evans intoxicated himself with megalomaniac dreams of power. ... He has tried bullwhipping, browbeating . . . common ordinary lying . . . but the canker of disappointment gnaws at his soul...
...bleeding canker disease, which appeared in New England ten years ago and makes trees ooze from small fissures, is now being treated by injections like those given to man and animals. A small hole is bored into the trunk, a rubber hose inserted and connected with a slow-seeping bottle of organic chemicals...
...passion for "campus prestige." Everyone, we are informed, dives into the rough-and-tumble for extra-curricular honors. No place at Yale for the lonely stag, the wall flower; every man has to make his "Y" in something or other. Studies can ride--they're not important. But the canker is even more loathsome than this; for almost every "activities" man is living a lie. He doesn't write for the Record or the News because he likes to, but because he is a crass fame-grabber, because he wishes to climb the well-worn ladder of extra-curricular activities...
with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper . . . Usura rusteth the chisel It rusteth the craft and the craftsman It gnaweth the thread in the loom None learneth to weave gold in her pattern ; Azure hath a canker by usura; cramoisi...
President Gabriel Terra of Uruguay, indicating that he feels he has removed from his country a Red canker of Revolution, decreed the end of all his Government's "extraordinary measures to avert internal disorders," proclaimed a joyous amnesty, invited Uruguayan political exiles to come home if they please...