Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wildcat strikes rouses the miners' wrath...
...press played it with grisly gusto. ROYAL FAMILY KILL PRINCESS WHO ELOPED was the headline in the Observer, which spurred competing papers into ferreting out the lurid details. According to first reports, the tragic story involved a Saudi Arabian princess called Misha who married a commoner, thereby incurring the wrath of her princely grandfather; she was shot and her husband beheaded. Leading the Fleet Street pack was the Daily Express, which published some blurry pictures that purported to show the beheading of Misha's lover, taken by a British tourist with an Instamatic concealed in a pack of cigarettes...
Every year brings fresh reminders of the weather's power over human life and events in the form of horrifying tornadoes, hurricanes and floods. These leave behind forgettable statistics and unforgettable images of devastated towns and battered humanity that can only humble people in the face of such wrath. Farmers often suffer the most, from the drought and plagues of biblical times to the hailstorms or quick freezes that even today can wipe out whole crops in minutes. Last week's icy assault on the Midwest, for all its ferocity and cost, is merely another reminder...
...reputation of "the Barnum of baseball." His unrivaled brinksmanship led to the scheduling of the first night game in Cincinnati in 1935. As the wheeler-dealer G.M. of the Dodgers in 1938, MacPhail made a series of transactions that would in the present era probably have incurred the wrath of Kuhn. Back in '38, MacPhail put $50,000 down on the trading block to buy first baseman Dolph Camilli from the Phillies. MacPhail also purchased Pee Wee Reese from the Red Sox and along the way acquired the likes of Joe Medwick, Whitlow Wyatt and Mickey Owen...
...most coasts, and though it appears insubstantial, plays a major role in buffering the land's boundaries from the pounding of the sea. "Sand meets water's force with its natural tendency to move," observes Mrs. Simon. "Its soft answer turns away the sea's wrath." Wet lands-marshes, swamps and coastal grass-also play a part, nourishing every thing from birds to bivalves. They also stabilize shores, absorbing flood water, releasing it slowly, and in the process protecting the land behind them...