Word: ire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...calls Juan Smiths. On their behalf, Pooley, one of U.S. journalism's last curmudgeons, wages daily war on the "s.o.b.'s." his all-embracing designation for city officials, cops, the opposition El Paso Times (circ. 52,538) and any other non-Juan who incurs Pooley's ire...
...subcommittee with a lack of jurisdiction, flatly refused to answer questions about their stewardship-e.g.: Had they used union funds to pay Dave Beck's personal bills? -and some of them took refuge behind the Fifth Amendment. Adding to Subcommittee Chairman John L. McClellan's ire, and to the growing concern of many members of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s executive council, was a telegram, sent from the Teamsters' Washington headquarters, which assured all Teamster officials that a Fifth Amendment plea would NOT BE THE BASIS FOR DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS BY OR WITHIN THE INTERNATIONAL...
...thus risking the eggheads' ire, Chairman Butler served implicit notice that they, like the Digest, are an expendable political luxury...
...give in too much to Nasser was to ire the British and French, who are unhappily halted in a narrow peninsula at Port Said and along a soo-yard strip running halfway down the canal. Despite the fact that the U.N. cease-fire resolution called for the immediate departure of all foreign troops from Egyptian soil, the British insist that they cannot remove their forces until there is either: 1) a general settlement of Middle Eastern problems, including airtight protection against Egyptian interference with Suez traffic, or 2) an "adequate" (i.e., division-size) U.N. force based in the Canal Zone...
...succeeded in restoring the lost Muhammad to his owner, but that was not all. It aroused the ire of some 100,000 affronted Moslems who claimed their Prophet had been insulted. Some 5,000 of them jammed the streets in front of the Pioneer's offices shouting "Shame." Students boycotted school, and businessmen shut their shops. A protest meeting was held in the city's biggest mosque. In the state assembly, a Hindu Communist took advantage of the situation to decry the government's "indifference to the resentment of the Moslem minority." The Pioneer published an abject...