Word: ire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University cannot refuse the offer for such high-minded reasons alone. This holier-than-thou attitude would only raise the ire and resentment of Boston-Cambridge residents who have much at stake in the future of the new professional team. There are, however, several practical considerations that would satisfactorily justify to all concerned the University's refusal to rent the Stadium...
Harvard's President Nathan M. Pusey called it "misguided, discriminatory, superfluous, ineffective, futile." Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold forcefully agreed; so did Oberlin College's President William E. Stevenson. Object of their ire: the "disclaimer affidavit" in the loyalty provision of the federal Student Loan Program. Last week, joining at least 13 other colleges and universities, Harvard, Yale and Oberlin quit the loan program. Between them, they turned back about $476,000 in federal funds...
More Evidence. While not necessarily endorsing Murrow, many industry veterans wondered whether Stanton's definition of deception was not too broad. Said Writer-Producer Goodman Ace, whose opening Big Party earned Stanton's ire because it falsely purported to be a soiree at the Waldorf: "Does Mr. Stanton want me to believe that Rochester works for Jack Benny, that it was really George De Witt's own hair on Name That Tune?" Comedians moaned that without canned laughter they may well get none at all; politicians feared that they may have to tell when their speeches...
...Central Jail to cover the capture of slippery Financier Lowell Birrell, and found the police studying earlier TIME stories on Birrell, easily convinced them that he should be allowed to interview the prisoner, who put on a tie for the occasion. De Carvalho's exclusive interview aroused the ire of Rio newspapermen, none of whom had been allowed to see Birrell. But like newsmen everywhere, they did not let professional jealousy stand in the way of a story, reproduced TIME articles and besieged De Carvalho for more details...
...faraway and long ago; visitors were hard put to assess them by contemporary-and so often geometric -standards. One critic noted that Dame Laura painted like a man. Said she in London when she heard of it, "What man?" Another called her a "popular painter," which roused her British ire the more: "Don't call me popular. I paint what I see, and I don't gild the truth." The truth through her eyes could be seen in the show's best canvas: a pain-racked image entitled Convalescent Gypsy. She had made no secret...