Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group of exiles appear from a neighboring village which has been sacked by the Turks for aiding Greek resistance, and the town must now decide whether to shelter them at the risk of incurring Turkish wrath. Content with prosperous servitude, the village's Orthodox pope and his council turn them away, telling the town that the strangers have cholera. The pope justifies this lie as a figure of speech--the exiles bear the "cholera" of rebellion and anarchy...
...Democrat DiSalle, a man of notable affability even in his harried term (1950-52) as President Truman's Price Administrator, is determined not to fail. Already he has irritated educators, businessmen and politicians with a tighten-up-and-tax budget. And last week he incurred the wrath of Ohio's powerful A.F.L.-C.I.O., which backed him heavily in his campaign last fall...
...Administration as a whole. If the government will recognize that taking a part--even unofficial--in Communist-infiltrated activities can help to balance lopsided propaganda, our real successes in Moscow may be repeated. But if we make things difficult for the interested to do anything without incurring the wrath of the government, those who went to the Russian capital to argue for the West will have little encouragement to visit Vienna, and America will be the loser...
Ilya Glazanov, 28, chose the third path and invoked the wrath of Culture Minister Mikhailov. Last year he exhibited a one-man show whose main interest point was a modest picture of his beautiful wife Nina lying nude on a bed. Man-in-the-street comments ran from "beautiful woman" to "shocking bourgeois immorality...
...Jesuit weekly, America, Robert A. Graham, S.J., added a blast of Catholic wrath at the Protestants' position. The World Order Conference's resolution, wrote Graham, is a stand "to puzzle and dishearten those who expected something more worthy of the cause of peace to which the delegates were dedicated ... In its silences and evasions, in its carefully phrased ambiguities and obvious inconsistencies, this would-be message of hope is a ghastly monument of abandonment. Its high words about the love of Christ and its vision of a world community willed by God sound fearfully hollow against its deep...