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Word: rancorous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...Awww, come on Phillleeeeee... buy 'em, huh? Just buy 'em. Come on. I'm sellin' them CHEAP. You got the bread." And somehow, just before the soundcheck, just before the band strikes into its electric rancor, they always get the money...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Color of Their Brains | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

CHUL is strictly an advisory body, and administrators can overrule the committee at will. However, most administrators try to accomodate the committee to avoid aggravating student-faculty rancor...

Author: By J.wyatt Emmerich, | Title: Alphabet Soup for Junior Politicians | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

Boston rock and roll is reeling. Critics call it "new wave" but the musicians and their devotees uniformly say it's "punk." Whatever you prefer to call it, it's Boston's genuine sound, some of the most exciting music around, branded by a particular rancor, commenting on everything from politics to love to disco...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Where Elites Meet to Eat, Read and Rock and Roll | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...ALBUM is softly stated, lacking the rambunctious bitching rancor of her previous work. It is disappointing in a sense. Much of the angst gets lost in the attempted level of sophistication. Patti is no longer wailing and screaming, but then again, she is no longer being spanked...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Street Symbolist Finds Her Ark | 5/8/1979 | See Source »

...Sunni gangs massacred a hundred Alevis in the southern Turkish town of Maras. But unlike the Shah's Iran, Turkey has a functioning democratic system, and no single issue or popular figure unites the opposition. The government is fearful, however, that "political opportunists" will try to capitalize on religious rancor. Premier Bülent Ecevit has launched a vigorous television and radio campaign appealing for unity and tolerance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World of Islam | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

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