Word: rancorous
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...Raymond Dobard explored in their book Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad (Random House) a family legend that said messages encoded in quilts helped slaves escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad, they had no idea that their hypothesis would inspire rancor from scholars who declared it false. They also couldn't have predicted how their story, published less than 10 years ago, would capture the popular imagination - being treated as fact on The Oprah Winfrey Show, in museum exhibits, in children's textbooks and on the Web, and spawning an industry...
...resource centers) have been around for a few decades, but the Bush Administration has made them a centerpiece of compassionate conservatism, a signal to members of the President's evangelical base that he shares their values. But as a new presidential race looms, the signals may be shifting, the rancor of the public fight fading. Hillary Clinton has called abortion "a sad, even tragic choice to many, many women" and talks about improving education and access to birth control so that abortion becomes a right most women never have to exercise. On the Republican side, Rudy Giuliani is pro-choice...
...sharply criticized the report because it didn't endorse his call for more U.S. troops in Iraq - most Hill Republicans issued bland statements praising the report, then ducked for cover. Texas G.O.P. Sen. John Cornyn said he hoped the report would enable Republicans and Democrats to "set any partisan rancor aside and reach a bipartisan solution to this critical issue." "The feeling on our side is that report seems pretty reasonable," a senior House G.O.P. aide told TIME. "It requires some heavy lifting, but it doesn't ask the Bush Administration to bend over backwards...
...couldn't be more different. One, Mary Poppins is from the P.L. Travers books that inspired the 1964 Walt Disney boxofficepalooza. The other, Grey Gardens, stitches songs onto the true saga of Edith Beale and her daughter Edie, the Jackie O. relatives who lived in spectacular squalor and family rancor in the ritzy Long Island village of East Hampton, and whose eccentricities the documentarians Albert and David Maysles put on display in their 1975 film...
...realized its hidden purpose: "To put a bit of steel back into the language of ideas that have come to be seen as soft, nebulous, weak," he says, before pausing. "All the things that have been stripped out of the national conversation." Despite his fury, Gurr is free of rancor. He's hard-headed about federal Labor's chances next year, but remains positive about the cause. "I refuse to be cynical," he says, as the lunchtime queues lengthen outside a Footscray bank's suite of five ATMs. "Cynicism is a kind of laziness. To be cynical about politics...