Word: ire
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Obscene Calls. Company officers have long been aware of their customers' ire. President W. Parker Sullivan has regularly switched his telephone number to avoid complaints. To regain its users' confidence, Sullivan decided that it was time to advertise his firm's efforts at improvement. Another consideration: in May, the company applied to the state's Public Utilities Commission for a 40% rate increase, which would increase gross revenues by $66 million a year...
Leaders of the women's liberation movement have shown a penchant for oddball causes-from ban-the-bras to communal child rearing-that leave many women cold. Now the liberationists have trained their ire on a new target: the distorted image of women in advertisements. And this time the militants are gaining wide support among women...
Governor's Club. The cause of Kirk's Samsonian ire was the Supreme Court's January order directing "immediate" desegregation in a number of school districts in Florida and four other Southern states. Although he is almost a liberal (by Florida standards) on racial matters, Kirk also knows an issue when he sees one. His voluble but futile protests had been doing wonders for his local political standing, which had sunk to a low ebb after his bumbling attempt to win the 1968 G.O.P. vice-presidential nomination and disclosures that much of Kirk's high living...
...grip tightened on the box of Cap'n Crunch, and I went to sit down. But there were no empty scats, 5:24 a.m. and I have to stand on the subway! At first, I was outraged, but then my ire mellowed into a bewilderment that all these people were actually on their way to work before...
...been called a pig once too often," said New York Supreme Court Justice John M. Murtagh last week. With that he recessed the pretrial hearings of 13 Black Panthers accused of plotting to blow up department stores, police stations and the New York Botanical Garden. Murtagh's ire was understandable. For 13 days the defendants directed streams of verbal vitriol at the bench and the prosecuting attorneys, bringing courtroom proceedings to a virtual standstill. Murtagh's solution: let the Panthers cool off in jail until they agree in writing to follow the traditional rules of courtroom decorum...