Word: rancored
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...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...
...Malice, distrust, rancor and hate create dangerous divisions among our people," warned Mississippi's former Democratic Governor James P. Coleman...
...abundance the qualities that often seem to be dis appearing elsewhere: kindliness, an unruly individualism, lack of snobbery, ease, style and, above all, sly humor. Though the Irish have lived much of their lives with bloodshed and privation, their tales of the bad times are recounted with as little rancor as if they were retelling the saga of Lugh of the Long Arm and the time he slew Balor of the Evil Eye with his slingshot...