Word: rancore
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Davis's assumption that his "naivete" in dealing with the press is solely responsible for all the press is solely responsible for all the rancor and ado his published statements has caused, is shortsighted considering the status and respectability of those incensed by his remarks...
...editor's meeting at The Washington Post, as the metro editor struggles to keep the Watergate story for his department rather than let it slip away to the national news department. For most of the film--in the absence of any really bad guys--most of the audience's rancor and frustration is directed at the brass on The Post who keep insisting on more facts, more names and more confirmations. But in the end we are led to see these men as crusty old newsmen in the Front Page tradition, driving their cub reporters hard but backing them...
...this century's funniest writers, Evelyn Waugh was also one of its most melancholy, a man submerged in private rancor. "You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic," he informed a friend. "Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being...
Watson said the change involved no feelings of personal rancor or bitterness. "McCarthy is a fine coach and a fine man. This was all done in a friendly way. I'm sorry, he's sorry, and the girls are sorry," Watson said...
Reith's most corrosive rancor was reserved for Churchill. Stranded in his "useless position" at Transport, Reith seethed while Churchill put together his "rotten" wartime coalition full of "humbugging and sycophantic" ministers. "It is dreadfully difficult to trust in God as I should," he wrote when Churchill took over the War Ministry himself rather than offering it to him. Increasingly frustrated by his view from the sidelines, Reith worked out his rage toward Churchill in a string of scribbled epithets ("cur," "coward," "loathsome cad," "blasted thug") and capped it with a curse: "To hell and torture with Churchill...