Word: ire
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Dramatic Arts: “The lack of (non-breakfast) bacon within your walls fills me with an ire and misery almost too painful to recall. More bacon! I require more bacon at the salad bar (real bacon, not the synthetic trash you dole out in clumps, like the artificial ‘beggin strips’ thrown to dogs on daytime television). More steak sauces! Where is my beloved, A1 with her delicate hands, and ever-shifting countenance (bold, spicy, rich and tangy...
...Some of them recently met with American diplomatic officials who are permitted to work in Havana. But a prominent dissident who has not been arrested is physicist Oswaldo Paya, 51, head of the Varela Project, which is calling for a constitutional referendum on free speech and elections. Castro's ire at the growing popularity of Paya seems a key impetus for the dragnet, since most of those arrested are Varela activists. But Castro has apparently decided that arresting Paya, who last year won the European Union's Sakharov Award for human rights, would attract the kind of attention Castro doesn...
...plan has sparked increasing ire from Peabody School parents over the past two weeks...
...reach the final, UMD beat Dartmouth 5-2 on March 21. The Crimson players watched some of that game after their 6-1 win over Minnesota, and the Bulldogs’ celebrations drew the ire of some of Harvard’s skaters...
...Sakamoto's success is also the root of the publishing mandarins' ire: he took their most potent weapon?their ability to fix prices?and turned it against them. One of the most stubborn vestiges of the Japanese government's protectionist bent is its 89-year-old saihan law, which makes it illegal to sell new books at a discount. The law's defenders spout a host of muddled rationales for preserving it, arguing variously that it promotes literacy or protects copyrights or maintains the intellectual integrity of the nation's literary output. This in a country where...