Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whittemore was not sure how the President could grant consent without incurring the wrath of Turkish citizens. The morning after receiving the go-ahead he went to Haghia Sophia to start work and saw the sign "Cloned for repairs." A little later, Attaturk quietly proclaimed the mosque a national museum...
...vein of compromise, the failure to carry anger" for very long, the tendency to become too clever for wrath, weakens him when he is compared with Swift. Compared with Voltaire's, his imagination is drier, lacks picture and lacks nature too. A kind of middle-class gentility preserved him from the great disgusts, the unspeakable horrors which greater imaginations could grasp. The prose is, however, a superb vehicle for the pamphleteer and any page of it is a model of the art of conducting unfair arguments. He was a highly original artist and the art lay in the transmuting...
Like a slowly awakening giant the Big Green showed anger last week. Today it will probably rise up the wrath to clobber the hapless Harvards. As Tuss so aptly put it last week--"Play ball"Finest quarterback in the business is the title held by the brilliant JOHNNY CLAYTON. This talented senior plays his third game in the Harvard Stadium today...
...that Gunn's paper was paying him for the news beats. Allighan was ousted from Parliament while the British press frowned on Gunn. The next year, the Standard broke the release date on a poll of British doctors on the nationalization of British medicine, and brought down the wrath of the British press for what the angry News Chronicle called the "most unethical journalistic achievement of the financial year...
...hideous hellfire theology is heard no longer in our churches." Today, he said, clergymen are ashamed to use such appeals as did colonial New England's Jonathan Edwards, who warned: "You cannot stand before an infuriated tiger. What will you do when God rushes upon you in His wrath...