Word: rancorous
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Some civic leaders and the Cambridge press hailed the presentations for their candor and friendliness. And Jane H. Corlette, Harvard's acting vice president for government, community and public affairs, said the lack of rancor over the announcement of the campaign showed improvement in town-gown relations...
While Reeves and the CCA have kept in contact since the mayor's defection, the dialogue has produced little more than more rancor...
...William O. Douglas, who had recently had a stroke, was asked how he could decide cases when he couldn't read, Douglas replied, "I'll see how the votes and vote the other way." Today, though Antonin Scalia takes sarcastic digs at his colleagues in his opinions, the personal rancor is missing. Sheldon Goldman, a political-science professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, says the Justices' relations are "personally harmonious...
...same day, 62 Senators on Capitol Hill voted to urge the President to tread into that territory and put an end to two decades of rancor with Vietnam. Although the Senate bill was nonbinding, its call to lift the 19- year-long embargo on trade with Vietnam offers Clinton license to take the politically sensitive step. The vote also provides the President with safe passage through a set of formidable obstacles strewn along the road to reconciliation; 2,238 of them to be exact -- the American soldiers whose fate in Indochina remains unsettled and whose families still demand that...
...decrepit house on the outskirts of what is now called Ho Chi Minh City. For a decade after the war, she and her three children were homeless. The Vietnamese government provided shelter only after a Japanese TV crew found her living in a field. Yet she exhibits no rancor: "I am proud of the death of my husband. It was a signal to end the war in Vietnam. I never blamed Americans, but I condemn Loan...