Word: riling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...manner. According to the film, Miner liked opera, was the tolerant and understanding lover of an abrasive early feminist-photographer and never hurt anyone in the course of his depredation. On the other hand, his takings were minuscule, his life as a fugitive mostly hard. And he managed to rile the lawmen of two countries, who quickly truncated his second career...
DETROIT. When the Lions played the Washington Redskins in the first round of the N.F.L. playoffs, Detroit sportscasters suggested throwing the football game. "Let's not rile Washington any more," cautioned one radio announcer. "We need a win in Congress more than we need a win for the Lions." The Motor City has got neither. With unemployment at 20% overall, and nearly 35% for blacks, Mayor Coleman Young last month declared a "hunger emergency." City agencies estimate that as many as one-third of the city's 1.2 million residents go to bed hungry every night. The Federal...
...earlier prohibition against U.S. companies making equipment for a pipeline that is to carry Siberian natural gas to Western Europe, Reagan added an order that the companies cannot permit foreign subsidiaries or licensees to do so either. U.S. officials estimated that the new ban, which is certain to rile European allies participating in the project, will delay completion of the pipeline by one to three years. Said one aide: "This action is very consistent with what Reagan said in his U.N. speech...
...rookie did not know whether Hannah was serious, but he didn't exactly wish to rile 280 pounds worth of Alabama human flesh. Later, when Brian Buckley learned that John Hannah has a strange sense of humor, he would be able to laugh. They would kid each other about which was superior--the Crimson of the north of the Crimson Tide of the south...
...across a spectrum of views. Even highly opinionated columnists are diminished in impact when they become simply another carefully chosen hue on a color wheel of opinion. Editorials, particularly on chain-owned newspapers, are apt to be blandly in favor of worthy causes and prudently evasive on issues that rile and divide the city...