Word: rancorous
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...thing, questioned one worker about his wages ($85-$90 a week), hefted tools, examined huge machines, freely offered his comments. When a guide showed him a machine and said, "I'm sure that you have better ones in your country," the New Nikita replied without a trace of rancor: "Don't be so sure. We have better ones; we have the same kind-we even have worse. I don't say that all you have is bad and all we have is good. We can learn from...
...shore as the freighter that might have taken them to safety was sunk at her mooring by a Japanese plane. Soon after, they were taken prisoner and for two years endured a hell that many failed to survive. Mydans' account of those years is remarkably free of rancor: he has compassion for his abused campmates, admiration for their capacity to endure.. And when, after an exchange of prisoners, he returned with the U.S. troops who dashed into Manila to rescue his P.W. friends, he realized afresh how moving was man's capacity for hope and how strong...
...inquisition. To begin with, the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee took an unusual step in bringing in a special counsel for the hearing. Committee and counsel called only hostile witnesses, gave Strauss no notice of who would be appearing against him. With witnesses day after day pouring personal rancor into the headlines, the weird sessions added up to one of the bitterest attacks on a presidential Cabinet appointee in the nation's history...
Arizona: Trailing in the pollsters' books only a few weeks ago, Republican Incumbent Barry Goldwater, 49, closed the gap with a flurry of TV talks, trimmed outgoing Governor Ernest McFarland after a bare-knuckle campaign that had the rancor of a personal feud. By beating McFarland, despite the Democratic trend, by winning in the teeth of Big Labor's threat to get him, unabashedly conservative Barry Goldwater emerged as Capitol Hill's No. 1 spokesman of the Republican right wing...
...Colored People feared that the North Carolina-born judge would be anti-Negro on the Supreme bench. The combined A.F.L. and N.A.A.C.P. lobbies were :nough to cause what the Washington Post recently called "one of the worst psychological lynchings in which the Senate has ever indulged." Showing no outward rancor, John Parker continued his brilliant service to American jurisprudence, no-ably in his support of the Supreme Court's decision against segregation...