Word: ire
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when only 200,000 nonwhites were in the country, white ire, helped by a slight rise in unemployment, sparked race riots in Nottingham and London's Netting Hill and Paddington districts. Since then, there have been no major outbreaks, but the underlying resentment remains strong, and both political parties have been understandably wary of antagonizing the white 98% of the electorate. Labor violently opposed the Tories' 1962 Commonwealth Immigration Act, but reversed itself and last winter decided to extend the law. The Tories were only too glad to oppose last week's bill on the ground that...
...report, scheduled to be finally approved on Monday, is based on the results of a questionnaire distribution throughout the College last Thursday and Friday. Ninety-three per cent those polled wanted to allow fresh- to list preferences on House applications, but 87 per cent did not want to ire them to do so. Eighty-one per cent preferred that House assignments be handled by the Masters rather than...
Presidential Ire. The flights have been controlled on almost a mission-by-mission basis by the White House in Washington, which began by restricting missions to four planes. With half of the craft flying cover, such small flights often failed to destroy their objectives. Explains a Pentagon official: "These are young, green kids, and there was a lot of flak around." Because of mountainous terrain, the U.S. jets usually must attack low, slowly, and in single file, which makes them all the more vulnerable; it was only last November when a jet fighter was shot down and its pilot killed...
...nipple shortage was reported in TIME'S Brezhnev cover story (Feb. 24), arousing great ire in the Kremlin. A second reference to this kind of "slanderous information" was made when the Kremlin closed TIME'S Moscow bureau...
...another letter to Ambassador Taylor, the Buddhists hinted that unless the U.S. withdraws its support from Huong-as it did last year from President Ngo Dinh Diem-Buddhist ire may be turned against Americans. Pointedly the Buddhists warned Taylor: "We affirm that you are responsible, before both the American and Vietnamese peoples, for the existence of the Huong government." Whereupon Chau, Quang and the Buddhists' nominal religious head, Thich Tinh Khiet, announced a 48-hour weekend hunger strike, urging Buddhists to join them in round-the-clock prayer sessions. From Darlac province came an offer of candidates for flaming...