Word: rancorous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, there was no shortage of Sikh-related rancor. In the northern Indian state of Haryana, at least three Hindus were killed and 40 injured in violence sparked by Rajiv Gandhi's Sikh peace plan. Part of that program calls for redrawing the boundaries between Haryana and Punjab, where Sikhs form a majority...
...this salient fact of inner rot based on pure egotism and greed which prompted the critical studies group to begin their assault on what the Law School had become. The intellectual issues are now completely obscured in personality and rancor. The root cause was never an ideological one but rather the monetization of the faculty in its drive for money, fame, and notoriety. Let us put things in their proper perspective. Benito Rakower, Ed.D...
...learn her trade from a succession of musicians and deejays, some of whom she slept with, but because the idea that she couldn't make it to the top on drive and talent alone is insulting. In fact the men in her life talk about her now % without rancor; it seems to have been obvious even then that Madonna was just passing through. Mark Kamins, deejay at the Danceteria, a funky, four-floor Chelsea disco that caters to purple-haired punks in leather and other exotics, is credited with "discovering" Madonna in 1982, although like America before Columbus...
Washington's springtime lapse from civility is as worrisome as the issues that provoked the bitterness. Not in many a year have there been such relentless partisanship and personal rancor along the capital's leafing avenues. There is no immunity. Not only has the running Democratic-Republican battle been raised to new intensity, but in the general melee, conservatives have attacked conservatives, legislative allies have thumped one another, special interests have zinged their benefactors, and friends have criticized friends...
Since then, the rancor has been aggravated by philosophical differences. Dornan, once dubbed "B-1 Bob," has flown the controversial bomber and is a devoted fan. He also comes down on the Administration's side as a staunch advocate of U.S. support for the anti-Sandinista contras in Nicaragua. Downey calls the B-1 "a flying frying pan" and has repeatedly criticized policies on Nicaragua...