Word: rancorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Must Suffer. She also taught it to Cinemactor Cummings. Cummings, a gentle young man, could not bring himself, after 22 tries, to sock Diana hard enough. At the 23rd take she kicked him in the shin with her high heel and he smacked her knock-kneed. Said Diana, without rancor: "If I hadn't done something, it could have gone on like that...
...side was stolid, peaceable WPBoss Donald Marr Nelson, who holds the big civilian job of the war. On the other was slim, stern, impatient Lieut. General Brehon Burke Somervell, who runs the Army's biggest show as Chief of the Services of Supply. They fought without personal rancor but with no holds barred, to determine whether Army or civilians should have last say on U.S. war production...
...guilty," said Mike, speaking without rancor. The 76th Congress declared the war, but what had it done about it? Quoted Mike: "'We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done...
...people of this nation are following the leadership (such as is provided for them) in the crisis as slavishly as any medieval chain gang. Thank your stars if your castigation doesn't produce the kind of sullen rancor which could one day destroy you. What this nation needs right now in these tax-ridden days is a pat on the back-not a slap on the mouth with the back of an ungrateful, irresponsible, alphabetical hand...
...salesmanship . . .") he did not preach an active crusade against Hitler, whose morals he deplored. Although Franklin Roosevelt had spelled out the menace to the U. S. in appeasing Hitler, he did not point out how far aid to Britain might have to go. Voters who could look back without rancor could find one reason for which they could hold neither candidate responsible: most of them had not wanted to hear...