Word: rile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Germany's Lutherans are strong for reunification of Germany, and in order not to rile the Communists against their Eastern brethren, they refrained from anti-Communist talk in speeches. Instead of bitterness at the Red regime, Lutherans displayed a tendency to look upon its repressions as divine punishment. Said Director Johann Schonherr of the Pastoral Seminary in East Germany's Brandenburg: "If today, in one part of Germany, the church loses many of its old privileges, the church must see this as God's way of regenerating it ... The church must suffer with its people, must share...
Other minor errors also rile Gruber. "You don't shoot a man in the throat, and you don't kill him with a pitchfork or an ax," he argues. "We had a script here where the hero was killed with a pitchfork and I changed it to shooting. That very same week Jim [Gunsmoke] Arness killed two men with a pitchfork. That's not an honest western...
Broken Commandments. Such puns often rile some viewers into protests. But the Last Word puts up happily with Brown's observation on slurred speech ("To slur is human") or Guest Panelist S. J. Perelman's near classic, "I've got Bright's disease-and he's got mine.'' What riles the audience more is Scholar Evans' zest for breaking old grammatical commandments. Evans accepts "it is me," prefers "ain't" to the awkward "am I not," thinks it fine to occasionally split infinitives, regards prepositions as good things to end sentences...
...Stevenson has managed to break new ground on the integration problem, even in the midst of a touch-and-go campaign. As yet there has been no similar Republican effort in this direction. Nixon's statement that he is an honorary member of the NAACP seems calculated only to rile a South which still holds itself proud. Certainly Nixon's approach can have no constructive effect. But the President is capable of a dignity which might possibly carry off an Eisenhower version of Stevenson's "direct confrontation." It remains to be seen whether President Eisenhower will take advantage of this...
Because of its new-found sense of direction, because it is strong and growing stronger, the Navy no longer needs to indulge in defensive sniping at the Air Force and Army. In its cockier moments it can still rile the Air Force, as Navy Secretary Thomas did when he told a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee: "With its newest planes, now being introduced into the fleet, there will be few important targets in the world that the Navy, if called upon, could not reach with atomic weapons." Replied Air Chief General Nathan Twining last week: "We must be realistic about such factors...