Word: rancorous
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Unvindicated morally, facing a growing though still underground challenge, the junta is in a quandary. Its members are committed by Cemal Gursel's word to hold free elections by October at the latest. But if they hang Menderes and Bayar, how will the predictably sharpened rancor among Democrats weigh in the election? Cynics suggest that the junta should have shot Menderes and Bayar as soon as they got their hands on them. Sighed an Istanbul businessman: "The greatest error was attempting to carry out the trials in a legal...
...rancor that it spreads...
Many marines suspected that McKean's attack was not without rancor: as a colonel, he was in charge of training at Parris Island in 1956 during the tragic drowning of six boots on a night-time disciplinary march through Ribbon Creek. Although he was not officially blamed, McKean voluntarily retired from the corps two months later, after he learned that he was about to be transferred to Panama. (His retired rank is a so-called "tombstone promotion.") At week's end, General David Shoup, the no-nonsense Marine commandant, ordered the offensive copies of Cavalier back on sale...
...Spaak provoked a good deal of laughter by rolling an orange along the conference table to soothe an angry and hungry Sir Stafford Cripps. The idea that prompted him has become a tradition in NATO negotiations: on the ability of its members to settle their differences quickly and without rancor depends the happiness and security of the West...
...Captain Bligh, Charles Laughton roasted the barnacles off Fletcher Christian 25 years ago, and he is still awesome as he bites off his words, chews them three times and then spits them out as if he did not like the taste. This time, as befits his age and rancor, Actor Laughton is a shore-based admiral who, toward the beginning of World War II. directs the Royal Navy's search for a particularly destructive German submarine...