Word: rancorous
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...trustees on their side sought to show they were indeed very concerned about student opinion and very eager to get student ideas on decisions affecting them. "I think that there would have been a great deal less rancor if students had been in on the decision-making for the off-campus tax," one trustee admitted. And both groups agreed strongly when Lynne Gerson, President of Moors, urged that "students should be encouraged to develop an interest in their college before they graduate...
There is a long history of rancor between the MFDP and the Young Dem-NAACP coaliiton. A meeting between leaders of the two groups last month resulted in little agreement on whether to join forces in a challenge, but another meeting is scheduled for next week...
...sometimes hard to tell whether the rancor aroused by Johnson stemmed from his policies or his personality. An immensely complex, contradictory and occasionally downright unpleasant man, he has never managed to attract the insulating layer of loyalty that a Roosevelt or a Truman, however beleaguered, could fall back on. Consequently, when things began to go wrong, he had few defenders and all too many critics...
Mississippi: Back to One Party In Mississippi, Republican Rubel Phillips, 42, an erstwhile segregationist who this year appealed for an end to racial rancor, lost to Democrat John Bell Williams, 48, by a vote of 293,188 to 126,753. Williams, a strident dissident who bolted the Democratic Party in 1964 to support Barry Goldwater and thereby lost his seniority in the House of Representatives, cashed in on Phillips' plea to voters to give up the fight against desegregation in order to elevate Mississippi economically. Phillips' radical suggestion tarred other Republicans: only one of 60 G.O.P. candidates...
There still remains the possibility that a small number of students will be singled out for some sort of punishment. That course of action is foolish and illogical. It is also unjust. The random selection of scapegoats would foster rancor instead of reflection, and would create martyrs where there is now simply an array of advocates...