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He became a priest, but his reformist zeal soon earned him enmity in high places.
Settler , from 1788, was roughly synonymous with colonist: I say roughly because W.H. Breton, in 1833, distinguishes between settlers the farmers only and colonists the whole of the free inhabitants, though this may be an academic distinction as John Dunmore Lang in the next year remarks that spirit of irreconcilable enmity to standing timber... almost uniformly evinced by all Australian colonists.
(Lish is an easy target, since he's enormously controversial for a number of reasons: his mannered writing style, for one, and his interventionist editorial style, for another, which made other authors' careers and also earned their enmity.)
Reporters traveling with Dole caught a glimpse of the enmity Oct. 9, when Nelson Warfield, Dole's press secretary, staged a public confrontation with Seelye.
The papers' consensus on the Weld pull-out is that he never had much of a chance, that President Clinton's support for him once the Jesse Helms problem presented itself was lukewarm at best, and that the source of Helms's enmity was never completely clear.