Word: rancorous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less sublime." Thus most literary memoirs might be described, but James Joyce was lucky in his friends: at worst, they merely carved their initials on the giant oak of his literary reputation. He was even luckier in his late brother, Stanislaus. With candor, insight and a remarkable lack of rancor toward the man who arrogantly dubbed him "my whetstone," Stanislaus was content to draw what is easily the best portrait of his legendary brother as a young...
Veto Power? Among Dulles' grittiest pre-Paris problems is France's anger at the U.S. and Britain for sending arms to pro-Western Tunisia a fortnight ago. With French rancor so strong that it threatened to stuff up the atmosphere at the Paris meeting, Foreign Minister Christian Pineau flew to Washington last week and talked over with Dulles ways and means of keeping Western arms delivered to Tunisia from getting into the hands of rebels in neighboring Algeria...
...American refusal to make a ringing declaration defending Israel's right of transit through the Gulf of Aqaba, Israelis now recognized that the U.S.'s quiet insistence that the gulf was an international waterway until proved otherwise had achieved the same result and stirred far less Arab rancor. Israel had its port, was taking full advantage of its busy new trade route to Africa and the East. Nasser had even allowed some Israel-bound cargoes through the Suez Canal. And at week's end Israel opened the Lake Huleh reclamation project, designed to drain 15,000 acres...
...assemblage of 150 top Indonesian leaders-including rebel colonels from the hill-all worried by the political disintegration of their country (TIME, Sept. 23). Basking in the joys of reconciliation, Hatta and Sukarno flew off together to "Indonesia's Arlington Cemetery" in Djokjakarta to purge their souls of rancor at the grave of General Sudirman, military hero of the revolt against the Dutch. For the first time since his resignation as Vice President last December, Hatta accepted a social invitation to the presidential palace, even joined Sukarno in leading lissome Moluccas maidens through the steps of the "sweety-sweety...
...soft-spoken Pastor Martin Luther King (TIME, Feb. 18). Gist of the Rev. King's eloquent plea to the White House and Congress: "Give us the ballot and we will no longer have to worry the Federal Government about our basic rights . . . We will quietly and nonviolently, without rancor or bitterness, implement the Supreme Court's decision...