Word: ire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Butler told the press that he thanked the Overseers for doing him a great personal and political favor but warned the University that such action risked stirring the legislative ire against Harvard. "The legislature can do with that institution what it wants," he said, "just as it can do with all others belonging to Massachusetts...
Clementis' fall from grace was no surprise to the West. Though a steadfast Marxist of many years standing (he was a Communist member of Czechoslovakia's Parliament in 1935), Clementis had aroused the Kremlin's ire several times. In 1939, he denounced the Nazi-Soviet pact; ordered to Moscow to explain this, he refused to go. Instead, he spent the war years in London with Jan Masaryk and the liberal Czech government in exile...