Word: ire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military aid to the allies, Ike plans to hold steady at the spending rate of $2.5 billion. Economic aid will hover near $1.7 billion, but the President wants Congress also to appropriate $1.8 billion to apply against long-range foreign-aid commitments-a project that already has drawn the ire of Georgia's Walter George, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and of California's Bill Knowland, Senate minority leader...
...with birdlike innocence, had written to Molotov, asking for confirmation of his own contention that the MVD documents produced by Petrov were forged (TIME, Oct. 31). Molotov obligingly answered yes, and Evatt set out to use Molotov as a character witness. This reassured no one. Then Evatt turned his ire on critical anti-Communists in his own party, and forced the ouster of Catholic Action groups. They set up a rival Labor Party...
...weeks after Delaplane's demonstration came a startled cable from Ire land to a San Francisco liquor importer: WHAT'S HAPPENING? The answer: Dela plane had touched off a craze for Irish coffee. In San Francisco's Buena Vista bar alone, consumption of Irish whisky leaped from two cases a year to 1,000 cases, an average of 700 Irish coffees a day. Visitors from some 40-odd cities where Delaplane's column runs turned up in droves to sample the magic dew. The consumption of Irish coffee has become so great that exports of Irish...
...ikebana for centuries has been Ten-Chi-Jin (Heaven-Earth-Man), where heaven is symbolized by the tall central flower, man by a medium branch placed at the side, and earth by the shortest branch, placed before the heaven branch. From this came the rikka (standing) and the nage-ire (thrown in) styles...
Shouts & Rumbles. The Catholics began to worry. When Minister Collard proposed last December to reduce the parochial-school subsidy by $10 million, to $82 million (v. $170 million for the secular schools) the Catholics' worry grew into ire. "I found that parents in some cities had no choice but to send their children to a Catholic school because there were not enough state schools," Collard -said. "It was our duty to open more state schools . . ." Last week, when the government invoked and won a vote of confidence on its subsidy proposals, Catholics all over Belgium rallied into protest action...