Word: riled
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...just when he seemed to be rolling in Southern clover, Willie went off half-cocked at an open mike, lambasting Jesse Jackson for supposed backstabbing. Now Jesse will likely orchestrate a prolonged public apologia from the Son of the South -- which, no matter how it goes, may rile black and white voters alike...
More troubling is that for years Buchanan has appeared to go out of his way to rile Jewish sensitivities. He argued the innocence of accused and convicted Nazi executioners and suggested that in any case the hunt for old, enfeebled men was of dubious moral value. An outspoken Roman Catholic, he enmeshed himself shrilly in a controversy between Jewish protesters and a convent they wanted removed from the former Auschwitz concentration camp...
When he joined Dr. King's cause, he became the negotiator with white sheriffs and FBI agents. S.C.L.C. veteran Hosea Williams says, "I would go into a town and rile up the blacks and make the whites say, 'What will these crazy niggers do next?' and then in would come nice little Andy saying, 'There are some points we would like to discuss with you.' " When Williams called Young an Uncle Tom, "he jumped on me physically, right in front of Dr. King...
...Klerk is getting jittery, he doesn't show it. In last week's by-election in the Natal district of Umlazi, his ruling National Party barely retained a safe seat against a strong showing by the Conservative Party. Undeterred, the President announced another move, guaranteed to further rile right-wingers: he lifted the four-year-old state of emergency in three of the country's four provinces. The exception: Natal, where largely black-on- black factional fighting recently flared...
FRANK ZAPPA: GUITAR (Rykodisc). The thinking man's mother of invention in a double album of riffs that are sure to rile. In-A-Gadda-Stravinsky, anyone...