Word: rancorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President and Congress were snarling at each other; the gap between them was greater than ever. New Hampshire's Senator Charles Tobey angrily exhibited a peculiar example of Presidential rancor (see The Congress). At memorial services for Franklin Roosevelt in the House chamber this week, Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley, ruffled as a wet hen over Harry Truman's rejection of his advice on the OPA bill, stiffly snubbed the President's overture of friendship. For Harry Truman's pat on his arm, the Kentucky Senator had only a formal...
C.I.O. President Philip Murray, who never got quite all he wanted from Franklin Roosevelt, and has long suspected that he was getting the run-around from Harry Truman, nearly burned out the nation's radio tubes with his accumulated rancor. What did labor think of the President's new strike plan (TIME, Dec. 10)? Just this, said Phil Murray...
Those who look upon the morning milk as one wholesome symbol of purity in an otherwise sullied world may not feel quite the same after reading this book. A long, character-full novel of rancor, frustration, and sex in a commercial dairy, by Sergeant Josiah E. Greene, 34, ex-writer of pulp thrillers and children's stories, Not in Our Stars has won the $2,500 Macmillan Centenary Award. With an impressively technical knowledge of modern milk-producing, a smooth, unpretentious narrative style, and a good ear for dialogue, Author Greene makes his managers, drivers, barn boys and farm...
...Power. Such was the temper of the U.S. Senate on the eve of the most momentous international gathering since Versailles. That temper breathed reasoned hope and optimism, as it had not done on the eve of Versailles, when rancor and dissension were the order of the day. Like its two delegates, the Senate-which must ratify any charter to come out of San Francisco-did not expect the millennium. But it seemed determined to help achieve some semblance of world order and U.S. adherence thereto, if it was at all possible. That determination was in good part...
...Assassination." The last seven days spewed forth a spate of name-calling rancor. Sidney Hillman said that a Dewey victory would be a "national catastrophe"; John Bricker charged that Communists now control the Democratic party. The New York Daily News thought it "fair to surmise that [Roosevelt] is even now hoping to have one of his sons succeed him as King of the United States...