Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Revenge, revenge, revenge," ran the trilling wail of the women at the funeral. Revenge against whom? Many of Jumblatt's followers thought they knew the answer: they turned their wrath upon Lebanon's Christian community. At week's end security officials said that more than 250 Christians had been killed; many of them had their throats...
...very easy for President Carter to denounce human rights violations in the Soviet Union and the Communist bloc. However, the time will come when the President will have to focus his wrath on violations by U.S. allies, specifically the Philippines and South Korea. Will the threat of losing U.S. bases in these countries deter President Carter's crusade? I hope...
...dailies are freighted with sex, scandal and scholarly dissertations on foreign policy, hard-digging investigative reporting is all but impossible. "Our law and our attitudes have been conditioned to defend free speech rather than free inquiry," observes Editor Harold Evans, whose exceptionally aggressive Sunday Times has repeatedly incurred government wrath in the past decade. "It is all right to utter opinion but not to publish the supporting evidence." Thus probably no British newspaper would have got away with a disclosure similar to the Washington Post's report last month of secret CIA payoffs to Jordan's King Hussein...
...solution an assistant removes old paint used to cover earlier retouching, exposing the crack-mending in the process. The slow and tricky work is necessitated solely by changed aesthetic tastes. Formerly, conservators could use new paint to "restore" a lost section of a picture without invoking the wrath of purists. Now, Beale said, the emphasis on presenting just the original, even when that causes gaps in a pattern...
...Dangers. In a grimy arc, from Nebraska through the plains of Kansas and Colorado, on into the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas, scenes right out of The Grapes of Wrath suddenly materialized in the swirl of dust billowing up to 12,000 feet. The grit sifted into houses, causing eyes to burn and coating tongues. As visibility neared zero, motorists pulled to sides of roads, and highways were ordered closed. At week's end the dust had blown over the southeastern states, turning the sky a milky yellow. To many worried Westerners, the worst dust storm in some...