Word: ire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charges are superior even esthetically--to sophomoric preaching; but Mr. Amfitheatrof's work leans too often on loud voices and poised fists for its dramatic effect. With the innate tension of his story a sympathetic Italian police commissioner rescuing a defected Communist from the Yugoslavs and from the fascist ire of the commissioner's son's political chief--the author need not have stressed action so much...
...from county to county. This meant that almost every real-estate owner in Nebraska was hit with an increase in taxes. In Crosby's home town, North Platte, town-lot tax valuations more than tripled. Although the State Supreme Court had forced the action, most of the public ire was directed at one man: Governor Crosby...
...Their method, said Dwight Eisenhower, is "to create an environment in which men are eager to make new jobs, to acquire new tools of production, to ... design new products and develop new markets." The tax program that has developed from this basic philosophy has already aroused the Democrats' ire. Snorted Harry Truman: "A rich man's relief measure...
Most of the committeemen, Tito included, arrived for the trial by car; Defendant Djilas, pale and haggard, came on foot. Through two long, private meetings, the comrades poured out their ire at Djilas' deviations and criticisms. Only one top Communist, Tito's official biographer, Vladimir Dedijer, had a good word for Djilas. Djilas himself confessed that "my attitude was wrong." He added that perhaps he had put his criticisms too strongly and unclearly, and that he had been "frightened" that the Communist bureaucracy might become like Russia's. He was, he insisted, still a "true Marxist...
...outspoken man who brought down the personal ire of Joseph Stalin on to the heads of Yugoslav Communists was a slim, sensitive-looking Communist intellectual named Milovan Djilas. He wrote the sharp anti-Soviet newspaper articles which preceded Marshal Tito's dramatic break from the Cominform in 1948. When Djilas' heretical words first broke into print, the Red world gasped. But Marshal Tito stood firmly behind Milovan Djilas. "Old Comrade," said Tito, "we'll stick together...