Word: rancorous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite laughter, personal rancor, and political partisanship, Brown University this week approved a student group whose ultimate goal is the impeachment of President Reagan...
Students who pay a large tuition to attend Harvard College may be expected to find an environment free from the contamination of faculty rancor and vicious intra-university politics. A good university should be temporary Arcadia and respite before one meets the ravening hypocrisy of American society at large...
Much of the news division's rancor had focused on Sauter, an 18-year CBS veteran who climbed from news division president to executive vice president of the Broadcast Group, but who also took back the news division title after the incumbent president, Edward Joyce, was shunted aside last December. CBS journalists were scathing about the role they felt that Sauter, a former journalist, had played in adding dollops of entertainment value to the news side. In particular, he drew scorn for hiring Phyllis George, a onetime Miss America, as an anchor for the ailing Morning News; George was later...
...week's end some of the early conference rancor had melted away. Said U.S. Delegation Leader Richard Kennedy, who had initially declared himself "disappointed" with the amount of Soviet information: "Our objectives have been met. We came to learn as much as we could. This does not mean we know everything. But the Soviet experts don't know everything either." While some understandings were reached during the five-day session, few if any minds were changed...
...model shop, workers craft detailed miniatures of such objects as the spaceship from Cocoon and the De Lorean car that flew through time in Back to the Future. The creature shop is the birthplace for most of the monsters and other grotesques that populate Lucas' fantasyland, from the Rancor Pit monster in Return of the Jedi to the yet-to-beunveiled Howard the Duck...