Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conservative al lies, such as Senator Strom Thurmond, want a liberal like Goldberg leading the court. On the other hand, this argument also suggests that Nixon does not want as one of his first official acts the task of withdrawing the nomination. To do so could incur the wrath of Goldberg's Democratic supporters in the Congress, legislators whose cooperation Nixon urgently needs...
...pressures to return most of the occupied territories. Any additional attempt to impose a settlement would pose several risks for President-elect Nixon-who last week sent former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton on a tour of the Middle East to sound positions on both sides. Among those risks: the wrath of the U.S. Jewish community and other pro-Israeli sympathizers. Yet, asks Washington, what is the alternative to taking a strong diplomatic hand? It could be for the United States to find itself trapped in the ring with the equally reluctant Russians, should the Arabs and Israelis square...
...recognizing that those who will oppose the system will always be in a minority, invokes the reasoning of majority power to persuade those who might bring their own demise. Yet Kennedy really fears that the politics of confrontation is a violent threat to society which may bring down the wrath of law and order not only upon those who invoke violence but also upon those who mean to use traditional non-violent dissent legitimate in democratic societies...
...Rabbi Lev Ben Bezalel of Prague in the 16th century. Animated by a slip of paper bearing the name of God, it murdered the Rabbi when he made it work on the Sabbath. The Biblical analog is the Tower of Babel, the presumptuous construction that called down God's wrath on man. But the Golem and the Tower of Babel are myths. Computers are real...
...discussing plans for this book, Luce told Elson that he wanted the volume to end on December 7th, 1941, that "day of wrath." Luce saw that day as a turning point for the nation, which was about to face the triumphs and trials of a world power, and for his publishing enterprise, which was to grow far beyond anything anticipated at the founding of TIME-the magazine that Luce used to call, rather proudly, "a rewrite sheet...