Word: ire
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gags. In his meeting with congressional leaders, he promised frequent consultations, but when he met the press, he was critical of the legislature. Congress, he said, had not been "responsible on money." What really aroused his ire, though, was a question on whether recent calls for a healing of the nation's wounds might lead to an amnesty for draft resisters. Nixon glowered, gripped both sides of the lectern and hunched low over the microphone. "Well," he said, "it takes two to heal wounds, and I must say that when I see the most vigorous criticism or, shall...
...Brien has muted his celebrated in flammatory style in this book, perhaps in deference to the gravity of the problems discussed. He does point out, how ever, that traveling from Northern Ire land to the South is like leaving a kingdom of dogs, gruff and demonstrative, and entering the cat kingdom of the sly, unpredictable Southern Irish...
...Britain has yet to acknowledge any debt to the people of Ireland for the past. But if it moved industry to the areas of highest unemployment and insisted that Northern Catholics get a fair share of the jobs, the atmosphere might improve dramatically. Reconciliation, at any rate, is probably Ire land's best hope of obtaining equality for the oppressed Catholics of the North - and perhaps of averting a full-scale sectarian civil...
...liberals raise Wills's ire, conservatives, particularly in the Vatican, do not fare much better. One is left with a picture of the Vatican disturbingly similar to that of the Calvinists in early 19th century America...
...prime target of official ire is a ragged, typewritten newsletter called the Chronicle of Current Events. The organ of the loosely knit Democratic Movement in Russia, the Chronicle provides accurate and exhaustive news of the arrests and trials of dissidents that are not reported in the official press. In spite of frequent efforts by the KGB (secret police) to halt the Chronicle's widespread underground circulation, 27 issues have appeared regularly since publication began in 1968. The KGB recently stepped up its drive to stamp out the journal. Scores of suspects have been rounded up and interrogated...