Word: ire
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While some of the fraternity's activities have predictably drawn ire from campus administration, the clashes have centered not on the drinking issues that usually plague such groups, but rather over how, or whether, they should be included in the Harvard community...
...plan drew the ire of Cantabridgians when it was announced last year...
RUPERT MURDOCH may not be America's favorite billionaire (that would be Cuddly Warren or Nebbishy Bill), but in Britain, he's a real crowd displeaser. So it was a nervy step to buy the U.K.'s most popular soccer team, Manchester United, and thus earn the ire of all those British soccer fans. The $1 billion purchase brought on predictably apoplectic headlines from the British tabs--including MURDOCH MOST FOUL and GREED 4, HONESTY 1--and threats from fan associations and former players that they will stop supporting the team. The kerfuffle is in sharp contrast to the blase...
Over a 14 month time span, downloads from Lau'spage accounted for 12 percent of all datatransmitted over the server, drawing the ire ofnetwork administrators who said Lau was violatinga policy prohibiting commercial use of Harvard'snetwork...
DIED. SAM YORTY, 88, maverick former mayor of Los Angeles; in the city he governed during the stormy '60s. Yorty, a master at grandstanding, flip-flopped from liberal Democrat to hard-line conservative. Urging "integration without inundation," he inspired the most ire with his racial views. After three turbulent terms, he was unseated by Tom Bradley, the city's first black mayor...