Word: rancorous
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...observers agree that joint custody works only if parents can detach child rearing from post-divorce resentments. That is no easy trick. Jerry and Jan LeClaire waited two years for the rancor that accompanied their divorce to fade before moving to joint custody. Now their daughter Lisa, 8, spends summers with her father and his new wife in Chaska, Minn., and the rest of the year with her mother in Plymouth, 25 miles away. The parents admit that Lisa is still a bit confused: she has two homes, two wardrobes, two sets of rules, and two sets of friends, neither...
Trying to keep the schools going, the board hired more than 300 substitute teachers. They were able to conduct most classes in the elementary schools, but could maintain only a skeletal program in the high schools. The outsiders also increased the rancor. Striking teachers showed up every morning to taunt the scabs, and taxpayers came to taunt the strikers. STARVE, one placard advised the teachers, and another jeered: GOODBYE TO YOUR LIFE SAVINGS...
...terror and bestiality of the African past, came to be viewed as a war of independence. Kenyatta himself, who had been denounced by a British colonial governor as "a leader to darkness and death," became as the ruler of his new nation a symbol of reconciliation without rancor. As a special mark of respect, the British government announced that Prince Charles would represent Queen Elizabeth II at Kenyatta's funeral this week...
...Reggie Jackson have presided over one of the tackier chapters in the sport's history. Together the Cuisinart blades of their egos have produced an almost daily puree of spite, envy and innuendo. In the process, they have transformed baseball's proudest franchise into a synonym for small-minded rancor. Last week one of them, Billy Martin, exited, temporarily, from the one job he always wanted in baseball. Question: Did he fall or was he pushed? Answer...
Some friends find their relationships with Beatty one-sided. But women who have had flings with Beatty speak of him more often with amusement than rancor. One survivor of a brief affair recalls: "He doesn't just want to seduce you but to quite literally charm the pants off you. He tells you you're fabulous and laughs at all your jokes. When we first met, we spent six hours talking about politics and articles in The Atlantic and sex and show business and Julie Christie. He's so in love with himself that it's contagious. He's very...