Word: ire
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dispute was engendered by the Poles painting the post boxes in the red and white colors of the Polish Republic. The Germans, outraged, retaliated by repainting them in the black, white and red colors of Imperial Germany. The fiery ire of Poles and Germans was temporarily abated by the whole question's being submitted to Mervyn Sorley Macdonnell, resident High Commissioner of the League of Nations...
...article is sponsored by University officials, it is the welcome sign of a new era of confidence and sympathy; if not, it indicates to them the most effective means of reaching a true understanding among alumni, students, and the administration. Spirited discussion based on guesses, leads to ire and ill will; on facts to ever nobler achievement...
Dissentior, altercation, prevarication, ire and other manifestations of temper uncontrolled were the order of several days' poppy talk in the halls of the League of Nations at Geneva, where some Nations of the world continued their long conference on the opium question (TIME...
...Lord Leon Trotzky was reported to be writing a new book, My Mistakes, which is expected to reheat* the ire of the Bolshevik triumvirate-Kamenev, Zinoviev, Stalin...
...Warsaw, Polish capital, national ire scaled great heights. The press fumed, warned Danzig that, unless it were more careful, it might become heir to a military occupation. It also reminded the unhappy Germans in Danzig that Poland "has powerful friends" - France, Czecho-Slovakia, Rumania, Yugo-Slavia - and could carry out her threats...