Word: rancorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dread of the invader and deep delight in all soldiers as soldiers? ... It is hopelessly bad for your Byronic hates if you sit through whole winter evenings in the abhorred foe's kitchen and the abhorred foe grants you the uncovenanted mercy of hot coffee and discusses without rancor the relative daily yields of the British and German milch...
...astronomically wrong facts. His accusations enjoyed wide circulation through the Reader's Digest, which sent three writers about South America with him. Some Latin Americans already fear that the end of the New Deal may mean the end of Good Neighborliness. Hugh Butler's partisan rancor would probably travel faster in South America than the news that all major Republican Presidential possibilities unanimously endorsed Good Neighborliness...
Most powerful sponsor of U.M.W. readmission was Hutcheson. The Carpenters' chief, Federation Republican war horse for the last three Presidential campaigns, shares Lewis' rancor against Franklin Roosevelt. A veteran hotel-room trader, Hutcheson heard the siren song of the A.F. of L. presidency in the deals arising from the Lewis application...
...Jones sat at table together-but three men sat between them. Occasion: a Cabinet meeting. Ten days earlier they had called each other lying bunglers (TIME, July 12). Neither had taken back one word. They left the White House by separate doors, each still holding fast to: 1) his rancor...
Second Front. Without rancor, Stalin built a good part of his speech around the second front-which "[will come] sooner or later . . . because our Allies need it no less than we do." Gone was the tone of reproach, so clear in Stalin's letter to Henry Cassidy (TIME, Oct. 12). Gone was the insinuation that Britain was harboring in Rudolf Hess a diplomatic agent from Hitler...