Word: ire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something snapped in Eaton's cranium. But he did not jump out of the window. His soul jumped out instead. He leaned forward. Utterance of some sort there must be. Had Eaton satire only lent him utterance, he might have said "when you call him, that, smile." Had Eaton ire only lent him utterance, he was. But neither instinct came alone; instead ire and satire met in one grand incandescence; and voicing this potent compound, as only Eaton can, he rasped forth the cry of Kent in one long lingering lung--"OH RINEHART...
...though New York's sweltering millions had been told to stay away from Coney Island. Free Berlin's press and public sweated in open indignation while Soviet Zone newspapers fanned their ire with hot blasts of anti-American propaganda. One doughty West Berliner defied both the general's edict and the guns by taking his usual morning dip clad in trunks, a medieval cuirass and a stahlhelm (see cut). The beachhead he established was held. Last week, West Berliners were once again taking their ease at Wannsee each morning. The sharpshooters were getting up in the middle...
...Lampoon's April "Literary Dig eat" Issue that really roused the ire of the Boston police. The Issue, banned for "desecration of the flag," depicted on the cover a tipsy Washington crossing the Delaware with the Caption underneath, "Sit down, you're rocking the boat." Although many issues were confiscated, Lamp ran a second printing and sold hundreds. The parody's price. sky-rocketed--as $12 a copy in New York city...
...latter was a protest against the serving of rancid butter, which had been imported from Ireland. A Lampoon type of the time expressed his ire in a Biblical satire, which included the immortal line, "Behold our butter stinketh, and we cannot eat thereof...
From the beginning of his campaign, it has been hard to see where Stassen thought he was going or what he was trying to prove. He had no chance for the nomination, and he has aroused the ire of all other Republican factions...