Word: rancor
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...dawn lightened the sky over the warehouses and factories of Long Island City across the river, the Council listened intently while the Congo's Justin Bomboko urged: "We should leave aside our rancor and our feelings; we should try together to find a solution." Tunisia's Mongi Slim closed the debate. With an apologetic bow to Italy's Egidio Ortona for what he was about to say, Slim brought up a 24-year-old ghost: the fateful day in 1936 when the League of Nations failed its biggest test, the day when Ethiopia's Emperor Haile...
...disgust with sex not only inspires one of the finest sonnets ("The expense of spirit in a waste of shame is lust in action"), but it erupts with sour rancor in all the major tragedies but Macbeth. With almost prurient relish, Hamlet chides his mother not to let the "bloat king" with his "reechy kisses" tempt her again to bed. The eightyish Lear, who might be presumed past sex obsession, works himself up into a fury on the devil in woman's flesh...
...television assurance that if any President of the U.S. took "dictation" from anyone, the Pope included, it would be contrary to his oath of office and "he would be subject to impeachment and should be." Negroes gave him their emphatic endorsement. Women found him irresistible. And for all the rancor and bitterness it generated, the West Virginia primary cleared the political air. It swept the religious issue aside, at least until after the Democratic Convention, and it removed any doubt about Kennedy's ability as a vote getter...
Free Lunch. Yet on the basis of last year's upper house elections-when Kishi and his Liberal Democrats won an overwhelming victory over the Socialist opposition-the rancor of the press hardly reflects the feelings of the voters of Japan. At week's end, when Kishi's plane touched down at Tokyo airport, 12,000 supporters (each provided with a free lunch box of beancake and rice) braved an icy, knifelike wind to cry "Banzai!" Although police had been massed to hold off student demonstrators who had rioted at Kishi's departure, the students...
...difficult to get along with that for the last 21 months of the Duplessis regime Barrette ran his department from Joliette, virtually boycotted cabinet meetings. In his first words as premier, he identified himself with the Sauve reforms, pledged himself to defend French Canada's historic stance "without rancor or pettifogging." Under no illusion that he cast as large a shadow as Strongman Duplessis or the brilliant Sauve, Barrette at least did not underestimate his office. "Someone once asked me what I thought of a certain Prime Minister of England," he said. "I replied that the Prime Minister...