Word: ire
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...independent jurist; of complications from pneumonia; in Denver. Known for his speed--and record rushing yardage and pay--as a defensive back for the Pittsburgh Pirates (now Steelers) and Detroit Lions in the late '30s and early '40s, the Rhodes scholar never shook his nickname, Whizzer, much to his ire. Appointed to the court in 1962 by President John F. Kennedy after serving as Robert Kennedy's deputy Attorney General, White consistently supported civil rights but took conservative stands on some of the era's divisive issues, dissenting in Miranda v. Arizona, which required police to read criminal suspects their...
...said The Crimson had published a poor piece of unnecessarily inflammatory journalism. Fong himself was inundated with e-mail. His article was widely circulated around the nation, sometimes with choice—and he says unfair—comments prefacing it. The Crimson published an apology that earned both ire and praise from all over the country...
...booted by the Ad Board for punching Helen Vendler. But Picker’s distant location and striking lack of charisma didn’t stop Sally I. Klein ’02 from visiting last weekend and hooking up with him in a tent, thus drawing the ire of Jennnifer T. Cohen ’02, whose strange craving for men in tents continues unsatiated...
...lack of compassion. In reality, the article simply demonstrated an abundance of journalistic integrity. As Hartnett himself notes, the piece was well researched—including interviews with former teachers, hometown community members, and on-campus friends—and tastefully written. If Hartnett had chosen to focus his ire at the caustic columns written by Ross G. Douthat ’02 and Jordana R. Lewis ’02 soon after the story broke, we might have agreed with him. By writing instead on the FM article, Hartnett causes us to question whether he understands the objective...
Portugal's official 2001 budget deficit was 2.2%, enough to stir the ire of the European Commission. Durão Barroso says wryly that this was "only a slight variation of 100%" on the government's 1.1% prediction and that it's probably higher because of trick accounting. He won't say where he would wield the ax but claims he will be tough on the state-funded institutions that grow around Portuguese governments like suckerfish around the mouth of a whale. "There were 130 of these six years ago," he says. "The Guterres government added another 78. Most...