Word: rancor
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...crack criminal lawyer seeking better protection of existing rights. The rights themselves have been won-from free expression in 1789 to equal voting in " 1965. And yet, he says, the American citizen may still be "arrested, jailed, fined under guise of bail and put to every risk and rancor of the criminal process if he expresses himself unpopularly." In the years ahead, Amsterdam intends to concentrate on making "the paper right a practical protection...
...bill." But the prospect of imminent congressional approval of the Administration's $6 billion-a-year medicare bill did not deter Ward from uttering some last words about his organization's opposition to the measure. Last week, before the Senate Finance Committee, he did just that, without rancor but with deep feeling...
...While coverage of the Selma story by TIME has been unusually fair, reporting by most news media has been so selective as to violate actuality. Hate and rancor from Selma's "men on the streets" have made front pages everywhere, but Selmians' expressions of shock and confession are not making even back pages anywhere-except in Selma. While the newsmen have kept us remembering that Selma has her Sheriff Jim Clark, the press has failed to tell the nation that Selma also has her Roswell Falkenberry, the moderate editor of the Selma Times Journal, who voices...
...linguistic and racial antagonism is added the weight of history. New grievances as well as old goad Asians to seek what Calcutta Philosopher Abu Sayeed Ayub calls "the appeasement of the ghosts of our ancestors by slaughtering members of another community." Conquerors have come and gone across Asia, sowing rancor as they marched. For generations after the Burmese raped Siam, Thai women wore crewcuts to avoid being hauled off by the hair. During World War II, brutality by the Japanese earned them loathing throughout Asia; until recently, any Japanese who toured the Philippines risked getting a balisong (switchblade) between...
...major stockholder in McCalls and several other companies, recently bought into American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres and acquired a 23% interest in Canada Dry. Simon may crack a few executive heads behind the scenes once he takes over a company, but his takeovers have not been marked by public rancor. Last week, however, he let fly at the former boss of one of his newest companies, excoriating the man in terms rarely heard in the business world...