Word: ire
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harrison as the idealistic journalist can deliver a speech on human rights or a quick Noel Coward-ish line with equal skill. Vivien Leigh lends quiet beauty, while Creel Parker as her father is able to arouse the admiration as well as the ire of the audience. Well buttered with wit, "Storm in a Teacup" at the same time holds political significance for an America that still remembers Huey Long...
...shown a streak of independence, makes no bones about his conservatism. Princeton-bred and well-to-do, he has a successful law practice, plays dufferish golf at the Kansas City Country Club, generally remains aloof from the hurly-burly of Missouri politics. He particularly roused the President's ire by going out to Harry Truman's home territory*and making a rousing speech on behalf of the Case Bill just before the President vetoed it. Worse yet, a great many Kansas citizens seemed to like the speech...
...Grebe in TIME [May 20] vents holy ire v. the farmers "who were exempted from fighting to raise food for the country." Ed Grebe should talk with the average articulate farmer and hear his side. Almost all farm boys were inducted eventually. Farmers who remained were generally ineligible-disabled or too old. Hired hands who were ineligible almost all deserted the farms to work in the high-pay defense plants. The farmer had to work twice as hard with broken-down machinery which was irreplaceable, not 8 but 14 or 16 hours a day, his sons in the service...
...stoutly spoken up at Council Bluffs, Iowa, in the heart of the isolationist Midwest: "We must make no mistake about it. It is up to the American people to support the Allies with ammunition and supplies whether we like it or not." These remarks roused the ire of many an isolationist, and posters were even circulated urging passengers to stay off the U.P., but Jeffers went right ahead getting himself and his railroad ready for war. He laid out an enormous spending program to improve...
Would any Senator willingly arouse G.I. ire? Obviously not. Yet the New York Times last week headlined: SENATORS IN ITALY STIR ARMY ANGER...