Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...single rime, I hope to avoid the further wrath of my literary superiors. If this course of action meets with Mr. Sokolov's approval, might I respectfully suggest as well that villanelles were written long before that of Jean Passerat in 1006, from which the present form is derived, and that the art of poetry is a trifle more capacious than his rules? Richard Sommer Teaching Fellow in English
...strikebreakers to shoot at the workers." Said the head of a sugar company: "Maybe the steel people did need a price increase, but going about it in the way they did puts a plague on all our houses." The business community was plainly apprehensive of Kennedy's wrath. Said Willard F. Rockwell, chairman of Rockwell-Standard Corp. (axles and frames): "Kennedy's press conference performance showed a most vicious attitude toward business. What kind of justice is it-when one guy steps out of line to punish us all for being in business...
...maneuver was necessary to bring the poll-tax amendment to a Senate vote; the actual bill was tied up in the Judiciary Committee, chaired by Mississippi's James O. Eastland. Holland's tactics stirred the brief wrath of Georgia's Richard Russell, leader of the fight against the amendment. Cried Russell: "We are adopting an absurd, farfetched, irrational, unreasonable and unconstitutional method to get this amendment." Then Russell subsided and Holland's motion carried...
...keenly that the play represented an insult to the honor of their country that they had to shout down the actors were justified. The immorality of Synge's peasants (they admire a murderer and use words like "shift") was only the ostensible cause of the outrage; what fired the wrath of the groundlings was the fact that Synges' peasants are neither squalid nor maudlin, are not, in other words, the stock stage peasants. (Lorca is the only playwright besides Synge who can write peasant comedies without cliche and condescension.) It is a measure of that first audience's total sympathy...
...vicious influence of African nationalism has turned their bone marrow to jelly." That is how Sir Roy Welensky, ex-boxer, ex-train engineer and for five years Federal Prime Minister of the Central African Federation, describes certain "metropolitan countries," presumably including Britain. Reason for Sir Roy's wrath:the situation in Northern Rhodesia, latest on the seemingly endless list of African trouble spots...