Word: rancorous
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...Cute? Although Godfrey tossed in a slurring remark on his Wednesday night show ("I'm sure you have noticed through the years that those who are the great ones stay with me"), his two ex-great ones were careful to show no rancor. Bleyer kept his peace. La Rosa appealed to reporters as a mixed-up kid: "It was Mr. Godfrey who kept telling me I was humble and to stay that way . . . He kept harping on that humility thing . . . This guy-pardon me-Mr. Godfrey -Mr. Godfrey has one of the best shows...
...Mantle game, a ground ball or a pop-up was an out; a line drive off the side of the house was a double, off the roof a triple, over the roof a homer. The daily drills often lasted five hours. Recalling it without rancor, Mickey says: "I'm probably the only kid who ever made his old man proud of him by breaking a window...
...hours the House echoed with the polite rancor of a strange debate-strange because the quarrel was all on one side of the House. Attlee pointedly ordered all Labor M.P.s to support rearmament. Churchill just sat back, smiling in anticipation of the pleasure to come at voting time...
...face stony - a dis missed commander conscious that history plucked at his sleeve, peered down at him from the lenses of the television cameras. He waited, impassively. As silence fell, he began to speak slowly, in a deep, reso nant voice. "I address you," he said, "with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country." Applause welled up again, interrupting him as it was to do again & again - in all, some 30 times...
...strolls the streets of Tegucigalpa unescorted, he takes time out for checker games with newsboys, swaps gossip with all comers. It was not surprising that he knew all about the latest plot against him long before the details were published last week. Said Gálvez without rancor: "It was an adventure of boys and novices...