Word: rancour
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...lack of agreement between nations as to the settlement of the "fruits" of the last. The college student of today is conscious of the World War only as on historical paradox. Even those of us who lost relatives in that futile struggle have long since ceased to nurse any rancour, other than that arising from the misery and despair we see all round us, for which we must hold our elders responsible. We have no bone to pick with other peoples, so long as they let us live our lives in peace...
...Foote balle, wherein there is nothinge but beastly furie and exstreme violence, whereof proceedeth hurte, and consequently rancour and malice do remayne with thym that be wounded, whereof it is to be put in perpetual silence...
...Thomas Elyote, in the Gourernour, 1557, speaks of 'Foote Balle, wherein is nothyng but beastelye fury and extreme violence, whereof proceedeth hurte, and consequently rancour and malice doe remanyne with them that be wounded, wherefore it is to be put in perpetual silence...
...found it best not to. Its growing popularity was nevertheless disagreeable to many people and in the seventeenth century Sir Thomas Mildman writes: "In likewise foote ball is too utterly abjected of all noble men, wherein is nothing but beastlie furie and extreme violence, whereof procedeth hurte and consequently rancour and malice." The Puritans were the worst enemies of the game; one Stubbes in his "Anatomie of Abuses in the Realme of England" mentions "foote ball playing and other devilishe pastimes" which were played on Sunday. Among his words on foot ball are these: "For dooth not everyone...
...Yale News, with its usual rancour toward Harvard and all things pertaining to Harvard, uses the following insolent language concerning the Harvard-Columbia affair : "To Columbia we may say that when the news reached us last summer that Harvard had thus refused to row, we were not at all surprised, remembering as we did the ways in which Harvard had attempted (and had too well succeeded) in having her say as regards the contests with us; and we were pleased when we heard that one of her own men had vigorously put a veto upon such conduct. To make their...