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Word: wrath (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead, he expressed his wrath by sending slices of his cake to the steel industry's chief negotiator and the president of the steelworkers' union. They are likely to find his disapproval unimpressive and stale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Let Him Eat Cake | 11/13/1959 | See Source »

Moravia was moved to wrath by municipal Rome's newest effort to cope with traffic jams that make an eternity of crossing the Eternal City. Plagued by an ever-growing (up 400,000 since World War II), ever-moving population, Rome's traffic planners route fleets of Fiats and thundering herds of motor scooters through narrow alleys designed for carriages and litters. Whole areas of Rome have become all but impossible to reach by car; so congested is the area around the Pantheon that many cab drivers flatly refuse to take passengers there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Semi-Eternal City | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...Enemy of the People, Ibsen wrote a masterpiece of crowd study which Miller has reworked with his own intimate knowledge of structure and stagecraft. The "terrible wrath of Henrik Ibsen" makes powerful theatre fare...

Author: By Carl PHILLIPS Jr., | Title: Enemy of the People | 10/28/1959 | See Source »

...papers did not back down when Castro turned his wrath on them; they countered with the harshest criticism Castro has met since taking office. "We are already very tired of so many threats," said Diario in a front-page editorial, "of so many unjust and gratuitous accusations." Diario went on to a withering analysis of freedom under Castro: "Public figures may say one thing in private but on the speaker's stand they say something else. That is not freedom of expression but terror and adulation . . . The idea has been created that everyone who disagrees is an undesirable element...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Voice of Opposition | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...make the College a nursery of high-minded, high-principled, well-taught, well-conducted, well-bred gentlemen, fit to take their share, gracefully and honorably, in public and private life." In his attempt to reach this goal, Harvard's fifteenth President failed miserably. His policies incurred the wrath of the undergraduates and culminated in the great riot of 1834 and the subsequent dismissal of the entire sophomore class...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Josiah Quincy and His School for 'Gentlemen' | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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