Word: rancor
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...side was stolid, peaceable WPBoss Donald Marr Nelson, who holds the big civilian job of the war. On the other was slim, stern, impatient Lieut. General Brehon Burke Somervell, who runs the Army's biggest show as Chief of the Services of Supply. They fought without personal rancor but with no holds barred, to determine whether Army or civilians should have last say on U.S. war production...
...guilty," said Mike, speaking without rancor. The 76th Congress declared the war, but what had it done about it? Quoted Mike: "'We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done...
...people of this nation are following the leadership (such as is provided for them) in the crisis as slavishly as any medieval chain gang. Thank your stars if your castigation doesn't produce the kind of sullen rancor which could one day destroy you. What this nation needs right now in these tax-ridden days is a pat on the back-not a slap on the mouth with the back of an ungrateful, irresponsible, alphabetical hand...
...salesmanship . . .") he did not preach an active crusade against Hitler, whose morals he deplored. Although Franklin Roosevelt had spelled out the menace to the U. S. in appeasing Hitler, he did not point out how far aid to Britain might have to go. Voters who could look back without rancor could find one reason for which they could hold neither candidate responsible: most of them had not wanted to hear...
...administration believed it would be beaten. But when the tally was in, Dan Hoan was out. Exclaimed exultant, shining-faced Mr. Zeidler: "I used nothing else than modern merchandising methods. See 'em, tell 'em, sell 'em." Said Dan Hoan: "I leave my public tasks "with no rancor." Commented the Washington Post: "Time takes its toll even of gratitude. The people of Athens got tired of hearing Aristides called the just and the people of Milwaukee apparently got tired of Daniel Webster Hoan for no better reason. Hoan, the Socialist, had nothing to offer them but a continuation...