Word: ire
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jackson shrugs off their ire. "They are wishy-washy," he scoffs. "They can't stampede me. My domestic voting record is almost perfect. That's what bugs them." Jackson last week took to bugging them in another way: he now boasts to audiences that he is the only candidate in the race who is willing to call himself a liberal...
...focus of Kissinger's ire is the 12,000-man force that Castro dispatched to Angola last year to help Moscow bring its client regime to power. At present Moscow's Latin Hessians seem to be marking time in the former Portuguese colony, perhaps while waiting for another African assignment. One possibility is Rhodesia, where Prime Minister Ian Smith's white minority regime faces the beginnings of what could be a bloody "war of liberation...
...another front and in far more direct fashion, business was also fighting back at its treatment by the press. The protesters were oil companies, and the focus of their ire was a five-part look at gasoline prices broadcast last month on WNBC-TV, the network-owned station in New York City. The mini-series was aired in daily segments of about five minutes each on the early evening news broadcast. Several oil companies privately expressed displeasure at the coverage, and one, Mobil, went public with its complaints, purchasing nearly $36,000 worth of full-page advertisements in local newspapers...
These are the politer ploys in what has become a rather uncivil war. Fighting fire with ire, bumper stickers declaim: KISSING A SMOKER IS LIKE LICKING A DIRTY ASHTRAY. A bellicose lapel button declares: SMOKERS STINK. Since slogans do not extinguish cigarettes, many antis become vigilantes. A scourge at some business conventions these days is a self-appointed enforcer who goes around plucking butts from smokers' mouths. One vigilante tactic: when a fellow guest lights up after dinner, an antismoker dunks his hand in the smoker's water glass. "What the...!" expostulates the smoker...
Some of the implications from this solution are obvious and have already raised student ire at the Design School and Yale. Sooner or later students here are also going to begin to notice the trend...