Word: rancore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...