Word: rancorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dreamer. In a Guatemala City boarding house, rancor spilled from another Dominican exile. Ex-Millionaire Juan Rodriguez, who had sunk his fortune into the Legion, blamed Figueres for "playing ball with other factions." With a distasteful glance at the litter of papers in his shabby room, he sighed: "I never thought I'd come to Central America. But to kick out Trujillo, I'd go to China, or Japan-or even to hell...
Vandenberg spoke with wit and without rancor. He paid good-natured tribute to Harry Truman as "the most famous one-man tornado in the history of political hurricanes," twitted him for spending "six soap-box months telling the American people how the Republicans had ruined them," then opening his message to Congress with: ". . . the State of the Union is good...
...part, the President went out of his way to show that he had acted without personal rancor in dispensing with Miranda's public services. On the day after the shuffle, when Peron received the Mexican decoration of the Order of the Aztec Eagle, Miguel Miranda stood at his right hand. But down the hall at Government Palace, four assistants busily cleared Miranda's belongings out of his office, and at week's end Miranda flew off to play on the beach at Uruguay's Punta del Este...
Wounded Moose. Such evidences of ancient rancor could not dislodge the railroads from their secure place in U.S. affections. U.S. citizens are pridefully aware that their railway system is the world's greatest. Their tracks are the nation's sinews, their story part of the nation's legend...
...Betty Grable, long-shanked, blue-eyed, 5 ft. 3½ in., no pounds, knows one answer. "Girls," she says, "can see me in a picture and feel I could be one of them." A wag with a parody spoke for the male audience when he sang, with no perceptible rancor toward Betty's bandleader husband...