Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...captured arms more than 20,000 additional Riffi were put in the field, and eventually an army numbering perhaps 80,000 was assembled, armed with captured or smuggled equipment. By 1924, Krim and his brother had driven the Spaniards out of almost the entire Riff. Shortsightedly they incurred the wrath of France by a raid on French Morocco in which their forces nearly captured Fez. Instead of thereby intimidating France, and?as they appear to have hoped?persuading her to exert pressure upon Spain to grant the Riff autonomy, they instead roused the French to an active fear lest Krim...
Then Mr. Vanderbilt rose up in his wrath and shouted: "The public be damned! You get out of here...
...mortal lover, she slew him and then was so mortified she made a vow never to do such a thing again. Herds of cattle that have climbed naturally to a knoll or ridge to escape lava, are said to have been "spared" by Pele, who sent her wrath around them. A man whose legs were clipped off by a hot boulder was said, after his demise, to have "stumbled into a crevice...
With blazing eyes, II Benito turned to order them away, thought better of it, stomached his wrath...
Moved to deep smoldering wrath, she did not chastise the animal at the time, waited until her husband returned from a sea voyage last week, charged him to shoot the squirrel while she waited on the porch. Impetuous, Herr Bugg-Moe fired upon the squirrel without pondering his aim. The bullet missed, plowed through a window of the house, pierced one of Fru Bugg-Moe's wrists as she held her fingers to her ears...