Word: rile
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Although May told the students that the Faculty's "internal rile" over the war resolution might hurt the Moratorium, the students reportedly told those at the meeting that they wanted the Faculty to hold a formal vote on the resolution...
...price of dentures and spectacles obtained through the National Health Service. Everything about the announcement by Crossman was wrong. It was released right on the eve of local elections in which. Labor's chances were poor to begin with, and it seemed almost calculated to rile the very backbenchers who had organized the abortive revolt. Worst of all, it reminded everyone in both parties that back in 1951 a similar charge for dentures and spectacles was enough to provoke Wilson's resignation from the Attlee Labor Cabinet. Anyway, M.P.s wondered, why had Crossman not eased the impact...
...intriguing was Peking's inclusion of the suggestion that Sino-American relations be based on the principle of "peaceful coexistence," a phrase Peking has not used in relation to Washington since 1964. Perhaps the invitation to resume talks with the Americans was no more than an effort to rile the Soviet Union, which fears a Sino-American deal as much as Peking worries about U.S.-Soviet collusion. But there have been other signs as well...
Brown's public image hardly fits the diplomatic pattern. Ebullient and explosive, he managed to so rile Nikita Khrushchev during a Labor Party dinner in London a few years ago that the Soviet leader ended up praising the capitalistic Tories as by far the easier of the two British parties to get along with. On the evening of President Kennedy's assassination, Brown emoted tearfully on a London television show about his friendship with Jack-and got a bad press for letting down the stiff upper lip in public. But those who know Brown better testify that...
Finland has kept its independence as a nation by carefully avoiding any internal or external policy that would rile the neighboring Russians. Since 1958, the Finns' readiness to please has even extended to excluding from the Cabinet all Social Democrats, against whom the Russians developed a grudge after World War II. But in last week's elections, Finnish voters were plainly unbothered by Moscow's traditional veto. In the biggest postwar gain in a Finnish election, the Social Democrats won 18 new seats, jumped ahead of the Center (formerly Agrarian) Party and the Communists to become...