Word: ire
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SOME SMOKE, MUCH IRE...
Rising tensions in the Middle East found horrific expression Thursday when a Jordanian border guard opened f ire on a group of Israeli schoolgirls, killing seven and wounding at least six more before he was overpowered by other Jordanian soldiers. TIME?s Bill Stewart reports that the girls were visiting a park at a horseshoe bend in the Jordan River, an ex ceptionally lovely area that has been Jordanian territory since Israel ceded the land in 1994. Seizing the weapon from a fellow soldier, the guard opened fire on the children, who were some 50 yards away, chasing them down...
...streets with brooms in a cleanup campaign, while others would help dig out remote villages snowed in by a recent storm. Throughout the spreading strike, union workers at subways, phone companies and cargo docks have been directed to stay on the job for fear of raising the people's ire; hospital workers also have remained to staff emergency and operating rooms. Home Minister Kim Woo-suk warned that if the unions prolong the protests, the "government has no option but to take firm action." For now, though, the Seoul government will let public opinion determine the strikes' course...
...belonged to the hub), who would be appalled into refurbishing the system. It was a plan the turtle had used many times in the past, with success, but this time, the vultures were simply appalled and decided instead to invest in carrion futures. And the group dissolved. Out of ire and frustration, pupils left the turtle's warm beds and hot tea to seek out other hubs of discussion. Somewhere south, a bulldog had founded a new group that was garnering much attention. Elders left, too, to tour and teach at other locals...
...ire had been inspired by a student government that was thoroughly unrepresentative--the Old Boys Network dominating the council hierarchy through back-room deals, financially corrupt, given to looting from the common treasury for private purposes, and ineffective both in attempting to represent student opinion in front of the administration and in the organization of undergraduate events and services. The council merited neither the nominal dues that I contributed nor the attention lavished upon it by the campus press...