Word: ire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...British Museum Library, might have missed the anniversary altogether had it not been for a comic squabble at the Greater London Council. When left-leaning Labor Party members in the city government voted to spend $53,000 on centenary observances, Conservative Spokesman Stanley Bolton reacted with predictable ire. "We don't owe anything to Marx," he said. "We owe more to Harpo and his brothers than Karl...
...sudden, and somewhat embarrassing, reversal of roles. Only six months ago, the U.S. had earned the ire of much of Latin America by siding with Britain in the Falkland Island's war. Last week it was Britain's turn to feel outrage as Washington backed Argentina in the Latest diplomatic skirmish over the remote South Atlantic dependencies. With the entire Soviet bloc and such radical states as Viet Nam, Cuba and Libya, the U.S. voted in the United Nations General Assembly for a nonbinding resolution that urged Britain to return to the negotiating table on the Falklands issue...
This pacifist faction within the church has drawn the ire of many conservative Catholic intellectuals (see box). "Some of the bishops are extremely cavalier," says Church Historian James Hitchcock of St. Louis University. "They seem to say there is no real problem with the Soviets. And some of them have fallen into the habit of saying that a nuclear holocaust would be the greatest of all evils. Yet in religious terms, physical destruction, no matter how horrible, can never be the worst evil. It makes me shiver when it is implied that we should allow ourselves if necessary...
...ended its voluntary moratorium on physical expansion this summer and bought eight townhouses in Cambridgeport and a number of other buildings which it had been renting. Both moves drew the ire of city councilors, but it was the purchase of the townhouses that received the most attention...
...numbers--or lack thereof--suggest that even the student governments which appear impressive with their hefty budgets and multiple services may be moving simply out of physical inertia. These governments seem to command little mandate or draw much ire. A Brown referendum earlier this spring appears to have been the victim of just this. The vote--on whether a new form of government should be adopted--failed, but just 800 undergraduates on the 5300-student campus, or 14 percent, went to the polls. Cornell's Senate Speaker Susan L. Bisom summarizes her attitude toward student-government in terms generally shared...