Word: rancorous
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...Vida Blue in '72, and both say Finley humiliated them by publicly ridiculing their ability and their salary demands. Says Jackson, who was only 23 at the time: "Charlie wanted to make me bend. He wanted to show me who was boss." Finley showed him. Late that season, his rancor still running strong, Jackson hit a grand-slam home run. While crossing home plate he looked up and raised a fist of defiance to the watching Finley. The next day, in front of then Manager John McNamara, four coaches and Team Captain Sal Bando, Finley ordered Jackson to sign...
...Marine Lance Corporal Darwin Judge. He was one of the last four Americans killed during the final evacuation of Viet Nam. His parents had the added pain of knowing that in the confusion, Darwin's body had been left behind in Saigon. But Postman Henry Judge displayed no rancor. Said he: "We've always stood up for the Lord, our country and the flag." Added Ida Judge: "You know, if it's your turn to die -and only the Lord knows that-what more beautiful way to die than for your country? I'm proud...
...made of steel, but I didn't believe him," recalled Arkansas Representative Wilbur Mills, returning to work after five months' treatment for alcoholism. Though his drinking problem cost him his 16-year chairmanship of the mighty House Ways and Means Committee, Mills showed more remorse than rancor as he settled back into his job. Alcoholism, he said, "affected my ability to reason, to concentrate. There were times when I just couldn't think and many times when I couldn't remember. Looking back on the problems with the [1974] health bill, I can see now that...
...kind of anxiety that led people to Los Angeles and the gaudy madness that was nurtured there. He used Los Angeles, and particularly the tawdry glamour of Hollywood, as a perfect metaphor for the screaming end of many poor dreams of glory. West wrote with fury, but without rancor or condescension. "It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible the results are," runs the novel's most famous passage. "But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous." By that standard, John Schlesinger...
...walkout halted for a 14-day "cooling off' period and striking veterans began reporting to training camp, the established league's exhibition season had been a disaster with rookies and free agents playing humdrum football in half-empty stadiums. Even if the strike is settled soon, the rancor between owners and strikers-not to mention bad blood between strikers and veterans who crossed picket lines-promises to linger through the season ahead...