Word: ire
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quick, watery egg to keep you going till lunch. All the same, when Dean Fox announced that only four Houses would serve hot breakfasts next year and that Mather and Dunster House students would have to walk three blocks to Leverett for their morning meal he aroused considerable student ire...
...pick up just about any glint they want. Collections of these glimpses, such as Woolen's, can be accurate in detail but in the whole mosaic gravely exaggerate a President's traits while failing to consider inevitable forces of the office that require his resistance. Hardly had Powell's ire cooled than other columnists were citing certain parallels between Carter and Richard Nixon. Curiously, the Times profile of Carter as a man jealously clinging to his power, occasionally alone, resisting contradiction and eschewing political maneuver, is not at odds with part of the image he has built up during...
...That Was, fondly known as TW3, lampooned and lacerated the Establishment, pooh-poohed every fat-cat institution from advertising to Buckingham Palace?and emptied British pubs on Saturday nights. Imported by NBC-TV in 1963, the American version of TW3 lasted two pallid seasons. Frost seemed to have lost ire and interest?or at least good gagwriters. In fact, he was concentrating on the endeavors that were to make him King Frost. He "went soft," as some old mates...
Aware that they could easily be used by Carter as foils in his drive to persuade the public to accept his program, most leaders of the oil and auto industries deliberately withheld their public fire?and ire. Said Frank Ikard, president of the American Petroleum Institute: "No segment of society is going to have everything its own way. But it would be tragic if strident divisiveness prevented the creation of a meaningful policy." Yet from Houston's Petroleum Club to Detroit's Athletic Club, leaders of the most affected industries were fuming...
...patient shared an interest in history and literature and together traveled 140,000 miles to strategy conferences during World War II. Moran's Churchill ... The Struggle for Survival, 1940-65, an account of Sir Winston's fight against pneumonia, two strokes and gradual senescence, stirred the ire of Churchill's family and the British Medical Association...