Word: rancor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this age of rancor, there is one political reconciliation that defies the national mood and grows stronger and deeper each year. A direct descendant of the elm tree that John Quincy Adams planted on the White House grounds in 1826 is now three years old and 14 ft. high, growing in the soil Thomas Jefferson had graded into a small hill back in 1807 to increase the beauty and privacy of the President's residence...
Bernardin is greatly respected by his fellow American bishops, in part for his ability to work out compromises on controversial issues. Soft-spoken and mild-mannered, he has a knack of achieving his goals without causing commotion or rancor. Says a top Catholic clergyman, in admiration: "When Bernardin makes waves, they're always smooth waves...
...certain that it can keep checks rolling out to 36 million Americans between 1983 and '89. Or so the eight Republicans and seven Democrats who make up the National Commission on Social Security Reform agreed last week, in a public meeting for once refreshingly free of partisan rancor...
...reasons for doing so are painfully clear: he had become a drunk and a philanderer with a "need to live in turbulence." But the author's account of this period is totally without rancor. There was plenty of pain for husband and wife, but also a parade of fascinating people. Randall Jarrell visited, slim, elegantly dressed, talking like a hillbilly; he twanged out such expressions as "Gol-ly!" and "Ba-by Doll!" Blackmur's wife Helen kept Princeton abuzz with gossip because she so openly scorned the role of faculty wife. When her husband told her that...
...Rancor of all kinds was thick before the final. Then the game began, and the rancor melted. The real surprise was not how stirring every minute of the game was, but how appealing every participant in it seemed, even the coaches. "I was outcoached tonight," Smith tried to say in victory afterward, but Thompson wouldn't let him. "That man's forgotten more basketball than I know...