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Acerbity & Rancor. Socialist Leader Paul-Henri Spaak opposed holding a referendum. He foresaw that the vote for Leopold might fall in the indecisive area between 55% and 65%, and that the King would carry Flanders, lose Wallonia. In that case, said Spaak, "the government would not only have on its hands the King's abdication or return, it would also have to appease the anger, acerbity and rancor of Flanders or Wallonia...
...Naval Operations. A stocky man (5 ft. 9 in., 168 Ibs.) with a rolling, pigeon-toed gait, he has none of the traditional sea dog's look of shaggy-browed sternness. His smile is quick, friendly but curiously remote. His eyes appraise impersonally without open -approval or rancor, like the eyes of an airman inspecting an engine. Always, he keeps an air of detachment...
Aware that her CRIMSON premiere does not quite equal the prestige Joan Appleton found on a "Life" cover, Audrey feels no rancor since she is already on familiar terms with celebrities. She is a friend of a friend of Shirley Temple's (whom she believes has been deeply wronged), and during Christmas vacation became intimate with Penny Singleton's two young daughters and Douglas Fairbank's dog. --Wellesley College News, January...
...years, the speech matched the occasion in tone and content. In 1948 Truman had defiantly demanded an anti-inflation program from a hostile Congress. In 1949 he was still crowing over the defeat of the "privileged few." This year Truman spoke confidently of pride in U.S. achievement, and with rancor toward none...
...Dreamer. In a Guatemala City boarding house, rancor spilled from another Dominican exile. Ex-Millionaire Juan Rodriguez, who had sunk his fortune into the Legion, blamed Figueres for "playing ball with other factions." With a distasteful glance at the litter of papers in his shabby room, he sighed: "I never thought I'd come to Central America. But to kick out Trujillo, I'd go to China, or Japan-or even to hell...