Word: ire
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fortnight ago, 700 local peasants advertised their ire by descending before dawn on Bonnefoi, the 400-acre farm owned by Tough Guy Gabin, 58, who recently bought up two other nearby holdings totaling 250 acres. The posse cut the phone lines and otherwise vandalized his property while their spokesmen argued with Gabin, who refused to rent his land to tenants, announced angrily and in haste that he would sell his two new farms−in all probability, to other cumulards, since they are worth nearly $200,000. Last week public indignation at the farmers' lawless tactics, raising memories...
...silence of periodic reviews of the case and a persistent refusal to parole Stroud, despite decades of "good behavior." Stroud killed his first man in Alaska in a fight over a prostitute. The picture begins when he kills his second, a prison guard who aroused Stroud's ire in the crowded mess hall at Leavenworth. His mother goes all the way to President Woodrow Wilson to win a commutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment...
Communist bureaucrats refused to shut down a single outmoded plant, fearing the ire of unemployed workers. Cumbersome monopolies, which produce goods at inflated cost, lobbied successfully against establishing domestic rivals. Factory managers boosted wages by a staggering 23%, went on a buying spree for foreign machinery for which the National Bank had to shell out scarce hard currency. At the same time, relaxed import barriers flooded Belgrade shops with French cognac, Italian shoes and other fancy consumer goods that the economy could not afford...
When Netherlands Premier Jan de Quay announced that he would send 1,400 more troops to New Guinea this week, the minority Calvinist Anti-Revolutionary Party in his four-party coalition government threatened to defect rather than risk voters' ire. The troubled Calvinists re quested a postponement of the debate. Su karno increased the pressure on Dutch public opinion by offering to send his pow erful vice premier, Mohammad Yamin -who is in charge of Sukarno's West Irian "development planning" - to Washington for a new round of talks on a settlement...
Died. C. (for Charles) Wright Mills, 46, angriest of the U.S.'s younger sociologists, a burly, motorcycle-riding Columbia University professor from Texas, who roused widespread ire with his jeremiads about the U.S. middle class (White Collar) and its upper class (The Power Elite), contended that "there are more men of knowledge in the service of men of power than men of power in the service of knowledge," recently wrote an emotional apologia for Castro titled Listen, Yankee; of a heart attack; in Nyack...