Word: rancorous
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...rancor from past struggles, however, neither side is anxious for a real crunching showdown. While Nasser may have succeeded in running Suez without the British, Mobutu knows that keeping Union Minière's complex operations going himself would be almost impossible. He has appealed to young Belgian technicians "of good will" to stay on the job, and the company is asking its managers to cooperate for the time being in running the mines. If nothing else, Union Minière is anxious not to drive Mobutu into nationalizing other extensive enterprises in the Congo owned by its parent...
What Mrs. Lieberman (known as the "Madame Nhu" of Berkeley since her suspension last spring) says -- and the way she says it -- tend to arouse genuine rancor among university administrators who have been burned before by brushes with her and other non-students. But even the most bitter administrator acknowledges that, although he would like to ignore her, Mrs. Leibermann knows what she's talking about this time...
This time Johnson made his brief announcements with dignity and clarity. He elaborated on his Asian trip and, to the surprise of many of the 187 reporters, photographers and electronic journalists present, showed no trace of his habitual rancor over the widespread leakage of his travel plans. Queried about the continuing decline of the stock market, he candidly confessed that his Administration and "questions of doubt about our tax policy" might be at least in part to blame...
...most importantly, we shall have thereby generated a climate in which rancor can be displaced by the spirit of charity, bitterness by compassion, fear by understanding; a climate in which good will shall flourish and abide in the hearts of our fellow citizens who have been torn by three stormy years of conflict and turmoil over the issue of racial impalance in our schools...
...Liverpool fans, feeling equally ill, loyally marched along the Mersey, carrying banners proclaiming "Peter Forever, Ringo Never." Even with a bodyguard, Beatle George Harrison got his eye blackened. It was three weeks before Best felt up to leaving the house, but, unlike his fans, he bore no personal rancor. "I saw John and George in Liverpool a couple of minutes," he notes. "We're still the best of friends. I asked them, 'How's your mother...