Word: rancore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...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...
...large measure, Goldwater himself provoked clerical disapproval. By abandoning a campaign of reasoned conservatism for a confusing variety of unfocused stands and charges, he has left himself wide open to criticism -and churchmen have often responded with a rancor that is undisguisedly political rather than morally persuasive...
...agrees with the death sentence for the reason that Tombo is a brute and cannot expiate his sin through repentance. It is too much for the younger priest. "Go ahead!" he shouts to the old maids. "Sacrifice that poor creature. Revenge yourself for your shame, your ridiculous impotence, your rancor, your rage." The sisters order the priest from the house, and while the housekeeper holds Tombo's arms, one of the sisters stabs him through the heart with a gold hatpin. "We're killing our brother!" shrieks one old maid as the other strikes...
...After a season with the Old Vic, she played opposite Olivier in Rhinoceros. "Marvelous," said Sir Larry. Richard Burton was wary of doing a scene with her in The V.I.P.s and, as he had feared, she took the scene away from him. "Grand larceny it was," he said without rancor...