Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Khrushchev's Russia has replaced Stalin's bullet in the neck as the approved Kremlin method of liquidation, the reason might well be his conspicuous association with the detente policy. Perhaps Khrushchev had offered Mikoyan as a sacrifice to Moscow's hard liners to divert their wrath from himself...
Reason for the unprofessional shenanigans was an outburst of Gallic wrath against a government decree, effective last week, fixing the fees doctors may charge under the health-insurance scheme. In France, benefits are financed by special taxes on employers and workers, but the government administers the plan. Patients go to a doctor of their own choosing, pay his bill, get him to sign a form that they hand in at a government office to receive 80% reimbursement. But the fees a doctor is allowed to charge, complained France's organized doctors, were set outrageously low: in Paris...
...even Betancourt escaped Cuba's wrath last week. Over the Eastern Radio Network, Castro's leading commentator, José Pardo Llada, called Betanceurt "vacillating," a "democratic anti-imperialist, but not much," "revolutionary, but not much." And that, said Pardo Llada, goes as well for former Costa Rican President José ("Pepe") Figueres and Puerto Rican Governor Luis Muñoz Marin...
...Kennedy bandwagon got rolling fast; Adlai Stevenson, Stuart Symington and Hubert Humphrey were reckoned at about 10% apiece, with no known support for Lyndon Johnson. After studying the results, Kennedy finally bowed out of the California primary last week-taking his half-loaf instead of stirring the wrath of California Democratic leaders, who want to avoid an expensive, party-splitting fight...
Tradition is that when young David incurred the wrath of King Saul, he fled to the Wilderness of Judah, a forbidding desert badland just west of the Dead Sea. Later rebels lived for years among its dry stream beds and limestone cliffs, hiding their sacred writings in inaccessible caves. In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd boy crawled into one such cave, found the first of these writings: the famous Dead Sea Scrolls. Since then, Israeli archaeologists have watched in alarm as Bedouins haphazardly ransacked the caves for more fragments of parchment and papyrus, often sneaking across the Jordan border to rifle...