Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Heavily Decorated. Then came Pearl Harbor. A.J.A.s in public life withdrew rather than incur the wrath of the haoles. In huge numbers, the younger nisei volunteered for military service. They were rebuffed at first. But in 1942, thanks in part to the intercession of the late Governor John Burns, then a police officer serving as liaison between the FBI and the A.J.A.s, 7,500 were inducted and shipped to Europe. Half of them were killed or wounded; their units were heavily decorated. The proud survivors returned home and went to college on the G.I. Bill. A new professional class...
...most in accordance with the precepts of the law, and who do their jobs efficiently. So Earl Silbert and Elliot L. Richardson are praised profusely for "doing it by the book," and those who used the case as an opportunity to mount their political soapboxes incur Higgins's wrath...
...executioner" for his summary firings of scores of lesser executives. The latest and most notable casualty occurred in September, when Sir John got rid of another much harried heavyweight: 236-lb. Graham Dowson, 52, who had held the title of chief executive. Dowson had incurred Davis' wrath by rejecting the woman that Sir John had promoted as Dowson's fourth wife...
...Soviet drive is for military bases. The Russians are eying Cam Ranh Bay, the massive port in South Viet Nam built by the U.S. for more than $130 million. Because such an acquisition would really alarm China, most observers see it as unlikely. "Whether Hanoi avoids Peking's wrath will depend on how successfully the North Vietnamese can make it appear that they are working in Asia's interest and not just in their own or the Soviet Union's," said Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. "Hanoi just cannot allow the Russians to build...
Chaotic Classrooms. All this left Shanker in an unenviable position. He knew that a school strike against a city already on its knees would bring civic wrath down on the U.F.T. and might undermine its support. On the other hand, he felt that he could not ask his teachers to give up working conditions won in earlier contracts or to fall further behind the soaring cost of living...