Word: rancored
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Oldest and youngest of a family of nine seafaring brothers, Capt. Fred Nutter and Capt. Edgar Nutter quarreled as shipmates for 50 years, quarreled for ten years more as inmates in New York's Sailors Snug Harbour. Last week their ceaseless rancor brought them into court...
...cause for Fokker's rancor suggests itself earlier in the same chapter, where he tells of selling his first trimotored plane to Byrd for the latter's North Pole flight of 1926 "on condition that the Fokker name would be left on it. Edsel Ford had liberally financed Byrd, still, I was somewhat surprised to hear later that the Fokker had somehow become Josephine Ford...
...love France," cried her President and drew terrific applause, "because she is the great nation that no ambition agitates, no rancor torments, and no hate inspires...
...Times of "garbling"' his eight-year-old words. Said he: "After I called your attention to these perversions of the truth, instead of apologizing like gentlemen for your oversight, you indulged in spite-silly sneers at my efforts to earn a living from journalism. Not even inveterate personal rancor, of which you have given innumerable proofs, can justify such methods. "You always refer with the curled lip of assumed superiority to the Hirst [sic] press, edited as it is by Mr. Brisbane, one of the most brilliant publicists in the world. I challenge you to produce from the Hirst...
...unwise movement developing in the student body? She touches invisible button number one, and the matter ends. Does a faculty member sponsor a doubtful local issue? Invisible button number two avoids the difficulty, and it is done so skillfully that neither student nor faculty member holds the slightest rancor, nor in fact quite knows how it all came about...