Word: rancorous
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...best-his scarifying gouaches of the 1921 Sacco-Vanzetti trial, his browbeaten bread-liners of the Depression, his concentration-camp victims of World War II. Since the mid-1950s, however, his work has mellowed. Nowadays, Shahn's gift is spurred as often by fondness as it is by rancor...
...Kodak is out of focus," read one placard. "The poor will win," proclaimed another. Attending the meeting briefly, the demonstration's leader, Negro Clergyman Franklin Delano Roosevelt Florence, 33, stalked angrily out, thundering: "This is not a meeting of stockholders. This is a meeting of racists." All the rancor obscured the fact that the company did record business during 1967's first quarter...
...Worker José Suarez, 22, told police last April that he stabbed to death his common-law wife and her five children. But he had not been advised of his right to silence, and last week Justice Michael Kern was forced to turn him loose. Said Kern with unusual rancor: "Even an animal such as this one-and I believe this is insulting the animal kingdom-must be protected with all legal safeguards. It is repulsive to let a thing like this out on the streets...
...most damaging testimony of all came from his third wife, who, after a one-hour recitation that supported some of the charges against her estranged husband, demonstrated her own lack of rancor by pleading with the committee to help him "continue his career in the service of his country." Testifying about the man who abandoned her for a young beauty-contest winner, Puerto Rican Yvette Diago Powell, 35, a onetime secretary, told the committee that...
...creeps, from stale crisis to predictable denouement. Will David marry Sara Kent, the white artist who loves him despite race and rancor? Will he accept the tempting offer of a State Department post in seething black Africa? Or will he meet a martyr's fate under the gunsight of nasty OP Clete...