Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration's top civil rights troubleshooter, it fell to Bobby Kennedy to put the bill back on the track. Painfully aware that he would bring down the wrath of civil rights professionals, Bobby went to the Judiciary Committee to plead that the bill be diluted to passable proportions. He carefully avoided challenging Celler's bill on principle, skillfully confined himself to matters of language and legalisms. The new public accommodations section, he said, was "unclear," might extend federal regulation to "all businesses which a state does not affirmatively ban." He questioned the vast scope of powers granted...
Interim Premier Giovanni Leone's recent attempt to curb credit was shot down by the right, left and center, since no party is willing to incur the wrath of legions of cambiali signers. But unless Italy soon brings its credit binge under control, its economic miracle could, like a butterfly, just flutter away...
...hardly a plum: over the years, the Sooners had regularly clobbered patsies like Kingfisher College (179-0), just as regularly taken their lumps from the likes of Texas (7-40). "You know what we were before we started winning football games?" asks a Wilkinson admirer. "The Grapes of Wrath. That was all anybody thought of us. Bud changed all that...
...hoary tradition of Britain's 23 other universities. "There has never been anything like this in Britain," gloats John S. Fulton, vice chancellor (president) at one of the seven, the University of Sussex. "This is rightly called an explosion. Things will never be the same again." From Cape Wrath to Land's End, Britons are avid to explode. "We are in a mess about our education," says Sir Charles Snow. "There is too little of it. It is too narrow both in spread and concept." Under fire is the sheltered snobbery of Oxford and Cambridge, whose...
Perhaps because of the site, the Sunday school killings in Birmingham brought forth in churches throughout the U.S. last week a great outpouring of wrath, sympathy-and hard-cash collections to help rebuild the bombed Baptist church. The reaction demonstrated what is best about religion's responsibilities toward mending the nation's racial division: white ministers and priests are everywhere waking up to the need to help Negroes through secular action -fund drives, picket lines, finding jobs, breaking down housing segregation. But at the same time, the hatred that brought on the bombing showed what clergymen confess...