Word: rancorous
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...face grimly drawn, his voice husky, Nixon appeared dead serious and exerting intense efforts to keep his rancor from getting out of hand...
With a hint of his old testiness, Khrushchev protested that Russian rancor at the U-2 incident in 1960 has "not healed yet" and that if Kennedy were to visit Russia, it "would put our guest in a difficult position." (Actually, Westerners in Moscow know that, on the contrary, John Kennedy or any other U.S. President would get an overwhelming popular reception from the Russian people, would thereby embarrass the regime.) Khrushchev added nonetheless that there are "no reasons for serious disputes between Russia...
...S.A.O. by name, De Gaulle made a scathing attack upon it. He poured scorn on "unworthy Frenchmen launched into subversive and criminal activities" who were "exploiting and aggravating the anxiety of a segment of the population of European origin, the nostalgia of certain elements of the army, the rancor and the ambition of several military leaders or available politicians." They would fail, cried De Gaulle, because "the nation itself unanimously scorns and condemns these people, their conspiracies and their attacks...
...told President Kennedy that any school-aid bill this session was "dead as slavery." But the President insisted that his congressional leaders keep trying to turn up some compromise-almost any compromise-that would satisfy the House, where the issue of aid to public schools was roiled by religious rancor and segregationist distrust. Last week President Kennedy learned the hard way that Rayburn had been right. In the Administration's second major legislative defeat of the week, the House voted down a diluted school bill by the humiliating margin...
...Orleans and the surrounding countryside as though he had created it, but that is almost the least of his virtues. The main fact is that his theme-the despair that attacks numberless people in their inmost minds-is handled with just the right degree of seriousness and humor, of rancor and indifference...