Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...daughter Julie Eisenhower as a consulting editor, hopes to use the borrowed documents for several articles on the Nixon presidency, including one feature by psychologists explaining the differences in public reaction to Watergate. Or, as Republican Publisher Cory Ser Vaas put it, "how some groups rise up in righteous wrath to join in a stone throwing and lynching while the other extreme prefers to see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil...
...spent most of its time since the release of the environmental impact statement trying to discredit it, using all the muscle and "experts" it can muster to its cause. The residents, also concerned about the environmental impact, have chosen the power plant as the focal point for all their wrath against institutions they claim are out to turn their predominantly working class neighborhood into an upper class research center. And they feel that the plans will cut to the very heart of their way of life. From a speech at one of the meetings...
...York's Democratic Governor Hugh Carey exploded in wrath, largely because the state government now faces enormous pressure to bail out the impecunious city. He wildly criticized the President for displaying a "level of arrogance and disregard for New York that rivals the worst days of Richard Nixon and his gang of cutthroats." Varying the analogy, he added: "We didn't even get 30 pieces of silver." But Ford argued persuasively that he was acting in the best interests of New York. In his "Dear Abe" letter of rejection, the President wrote that lending money to the city...
...clear that the hastily conceived operation had failed in its objective of evacuating all those Vietnamese whose lives might be endangered after the Communists came to power. U.S. officials conceded that many people had been left behind whose close connections to the Americans made them likely targets of Communist wrath. Others who had far less to fear from the new regime, including a number of prostitutes, were safely ferried to U.S. ships waiting off the Vietnamese coast...
Most important of all, Hedda's self-hatred translates into a destructive hatred of others-her academic clod of a husband, George Tesman (Peter Eyre), for example, and her onetime lover, the writer Eilert Luvborg (Patrick Stewart). Her wrath stems from the fact that she has betrayed her own Dionysian will to freedom. She is an older Nora who failed to slam the door on parochialism, co vention and hypocrisy. Jackson reduces all that to the level of cocktail-party sarcasm and suburban jitters...