Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sending Brazil's holdover Congress into permanent recess. As Lacerda's charges began to stir a fuss, Quadros dramatically resigned. It was seven years and a day from the resignation and suicide of Brazilian Strongman Getúlio Vargas, another President who had incurred Lacerda's wrath...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). The grapes of wrath are pressed again as Walter Cronkite & Co. revisit The Dust Bowl, interviewing farmers who stayed with the land and are still there...
...fraternally rancorous old goats, Maurice Chevalier and Charles Boyer. Chevalier plays Panisse, who marries the pregnant Fanny (Leslie Caron) after her sea-struck lover, Marius (Horst Buch-holz), jilts her for a square-rigger. Boyer plays Marius' father, Cesar. They are vast bladders of honor, mountains of wrath, vestfuls of selfesteem, and it is a great pleasure to watch them cheat each other at cards or craftily set a derby hat in the street and wait for a sucker to break his toe on the brick inside. Each plays the fool well, and each also accomplishes the difficult trick...
...through his proposals for a minimum wage increase, aid to depressed areas, and the creation of 73 new federal judgeships. But in recent weeks his foreign policy failures have taught Congressmen that the President is far from infallible-and that they can vote against him without incurring too much wrath from the folks back home. Last week 18 Democratic Senators joined Republicans in voting 52 to 38 against an Administration proposal to clear the backlog of cases before the Securities and Exchange Commission by giving Chairman William Lucius Gary and the other commissioners the right to delegate decision-making authority...
...useful innocent." But Quadros bragged, "They're not using me-I'm using them." The alliance ended in 1952 when the Reds demanded control of key departments as their price for support in São Paulo's mayoralty election. Quadros turned them down. In their wrath, the Communists tried to tie a capitalist can to Quadros with such epithets as "Wall Street stooge" and "the Esso candidate," did their best-as they have in every election since-to defeat him. Quadros took to the streets, boasting that he owned only one pair of shoes ("Why should...