Word: rancorous
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...individual be so cruel?" cried one writer. "I have never seen such cruel, carping criticism of even the trashiest book!" exclaimed another. The Review received a cascade of letters, the vast majority attacking Ciardi's review. Most were from women, and they assailed Ciardi's blunt rancor more than his assessment. There were, however, rumbles from men readers as well. Historian Geoffrey Bruun solemnly declared: "Ciardi exceeded his privileges as a poetry editor to insult a sincere and sensitive writer." Another writer protested: "Why take a baseball bat to club a butterfly...
...British ambassador did in Jordan), no company agent issues authoritative suggestions to Saud's government officials (as Anglo-Iranian did in Iran). The result has been that nowhere else in the world, where such a single foreign interest so dominates a nation's economy, is there less rancor between government and company, between host and paying guest...
...Lord of the Admiralty Lord Hailsham: "We do not wish to hear any moral lectures from those whose moral weakness and incapacity to see the facts was the precipitating factor in the present crisis." The occasion for the worst hostility might die down with the oil deliveries, but the rancor was likely to remain...
...Cynic Levine says that he "can't go long without an editorial problem. Before, I painted the wardheelers; now for once I'm painting the voters. What can I say about ordinary people against whom I have no rancor? I find people attractive. So they have to be gulled. Somebody's selling and everybody's gullible." To make his point, Levine has one well-curved doxie hold up a sign reading VELENO, Italian for poison...
...years ago, "that some of our Negro friends may politely ask if they may come into our church on Sunday morning to worship. Certainly Christian love has no answer but to kindly grant the request." There were a few frowns and compressed lips, but the congregation showed no rancor. In Houston, no Negro had ever asked to join Augustana Church, even though it is perched on the edge of an expanding Negro district. Few parishioners seemed to feel that the pastor's words boded any real change...