Word: ire
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mere suggestion that Harvard might "expand" never fails to arouse Vellucci's emotions and to provoke the ire of local tenant and neighborhood groups who fear the University will somehow infringe on their privacy. Several prominent Cambridge citizens interviewed recently demanded "greater sensitivity" from University officials who might be considering expansion in the next five to ten years...
...Dealer," he said. "I've been for progressive legislation all my life." Then he added: "But I've been hard-headed on foreign affairs," alluding to his superhawk loyalist stand on Viet Nam and President Nixon. None of the fire-or ire-has left Joe's writing since the death earlier this year of his younger brother and former partner Stewart. Still, Alsop admits that he is tired. "The reporter's trade is for young men," he said. "The great Americans of the postwar period," he wrote in a column announcing his retirement, "were the leaders...
...through the more than 50 pages of maps and graphs in the interim report, it is apparent that Harvard faces serious problems with many of its antiquated utility systems, particularly sewage, steam and water lines. By earmarking certain areas for certain potentials Harvard is bound to arouse suspicion and ire; in outlining specific altternatives toes are sure to be stepped on and many individual domains interfered with...
...quotation as reported was accurate only in respect to the North Vietnamese Communists who held me captive. However, it would be a grave injustice to call this the national characteristic of millions of sensitive, creative and patriotic Vietnamese both North and South. My ire is directed toward an ideology. My empathy is for those enslaved by Communism...
...December of 1969, after a year's debate, Congress passed and Nixon signed into law a bill ending deductions for gifts such as his retroactive to July 25, 1969. (It was passed in part out of Congress' ire over Lyndon Johnson's gifts of papers, on which he took deductions.) Nixon and his aides insisted that that deadline had been met. The papers had been delivered to the National Archives on March 26 and 27 of that year. But since the National Archives routinely serves as a kind of storage vault for the papers of important officials, the question...