Word: ire
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Firm Hand. The Dred Scott decision alone made Taney extremely unpopular in the North, but public ire reached a crescendo after Fort Sumter, when he steadfastly opposed the war-harassed Lincoln Administration as it tried to circumvent constitutional safeguards for the sake of wartime efficiency...
...Error & Ire. The failure of the long-awaited Afro-Asian Conference in Al giers last week was one more step toward an end to that grandiose dream of the underdeveloped nations: a unified, hard-hitting "third world" of Africans and Asians dedicated to fight "Western imperialism" and further "nonalignment." The meeting failed ostensibly because its membership could not clearly decide on the question of Russian attendance as a fellow "Afro-Asian" nation. Actually, the conference was killed by Red China, whose intransigent leaders could not bear to sit down with the despised "revisionists" of Moscow, and who were equally unsure...
...while even Lyndon's intense heat treatment failed to melt the dead lock. The industry claimed that it could not possibly boost its offer of a 40.6? hourly wage increase for a 35-month contract without raising prices, stirring Johnson's ire and losing sales to foreign steelmakers and competitive materials such as aluminum, plastics and cement. The steelworkers' Abel, who got elected earlier this year on a promise of plumper contracts, was equally adamant in refusing to scale down his demand...
...whom De Gaulle reserves his worst epithet-les apatrides, or stateless men. It was Hallstein's package proposal, aimed at winning French acquiescence to an enlargement of the supranational powers of the Eurocrats and the European Parliament, that touched off the crisis-and De Gaulle's ire-in the first place. The bait was a farm policy worth billions of dollars to French farmers. "Do they think we can be bought like Yemen or Italy?" De Gaulle is reported to have roared when he heard the proposal. The boycott was his answer...
...Gaulle's ire, France, to step out of the snare, would have to abandon its whole campaign for swift completion of the Common Market farm plan-and the Eurocrats were certain the French would never agree to that. But a clever diplomat never says never. Last week, without a twitch of embarrassment, Couve de Murville blandly told his colleagues in Brussels that since the Rome Treaty provided until 1970 to complete an agricultural common market, France saw no reason why everyone should be in such a hurry to finish...