Word: ire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Balanced Tire. U.S. Rubber Co. has developed what it calls the first passenger ire with a built-in permanent balance. The tubeless tire, called the "Safti-Flight," contains a wide, dense strip of rubber that runs completely around the nside rim and is buffed out in spots to balance the tire. List price: $67.15 for a 14-in. tire...
...independent Fund for the Advancement of Education has at times stirred the ire of professional educators, and the Fund for the Republic, which the foundation founded and set adrift, has stirred the ire of practically everyone else. Fulton Lewis Jr. devoted a whole series of broadcasts to denouncing the Fund for the Republic, and the national commander of the American Legion charged in 1955 that it was "threatening and may succeed in crippling the national security." Some citizens have boycotted Ford cars; others deluged Henry Ford II with outraged letters. "Your grandfather would spin in his grave," wrote an Albany...
Lobster-red with ire, Teamster President Dave Beck gabbled away to newsmen last week in his $30-a-day, two-TV suite at the Galvez Hotel in Galveston, Texas, where he was on hand to attend a meeting of the Teamsters' General Executive Board. "This whole damn business don't bother me a damn bit," he huffed, meaning the Senate investigation in which he dodged behind the Fifth Amendment 142 times in reply to questions about his handling of $320,000 in union funds (TIME, April...
...decision to the Cabinet). The hubbub prompted a blunt question at the President's press conference: Was Ike planning to resign? Replied the President coldly: "The worst rot that I have heard since I have been in this office." There was another subject that was arousing some Eisenhower ire: the budget furor. "It is an easy thing to make speeches about," he said, "but it is a very hard thing to do much about ... If we are going to wage peace abroad and try to provide the leadership and the services at home that our people demand, then...
...demanding the admission of women to the clergy, he turned his barbs against England's men of the cloth, declaring that "it can no longer be presumed that a parson will even be respected as a man, let alone revered as a priest." More recently, Altrincham's ire was directed against Tory Anthony Eden's policy on Suez...