Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...generations Western sheepmen have reserved their deepest wrath for the coyote (Canis latrans), a wily cousin of the wolf with a healthy appetite for mice, rabbits and, according to the wool growers, lambs. Since 1972, when the Environmental Protection Agency flatly banned the most effective coyote poisons - Compound 1080 (monofluoride acetate) and the M44 (a spring-loaded tube containing sodium cyanide)-sheepmen have been howling loudly. They claim that a burgeoning coyote population is threatening their already risky business (which operates on a 2% profit margin) with ruin. They have begun attaching bumper stickers to their automobiles with legends like...
...Sinologists noted, had been behind recent attacks on Confucius, which, as everyone in China seemed to know, was really their way of denouncing the pragmatists led by Premier Chou Enlai. The ball is now back in Chiang Ching's court, and who knows how she will show her wrath against Chou's group? Will she lash out at such modern composers as Bartdk and Stravinsky, assuming that everyone realizes she means you-know-who and his newfangled ideas? Or will she defiantly schedule a Peking Beethoven Festival and, like Schroeder in the Peanuts cartoon, carry a bust...
...people were skeptics before Watergate, but they didn't start acting like evangelists until Watergate. Watergate made righteousness fashionable--the country's soul needed saving. But righteousness thwarted turns to wrath. And righteous wrath obstructed creates a pressure to purge. The Exorcist is the picture of a purge. It is bursting with nihilistic aggression. Blasphemy is the whole of little Regan...
QUINCY HOUSE DINING HALL, Grapes of Wrath, (at 8) with Henry Fonda, John Carradine, All About Eve, (at 10) with Bette Davis...
...beginning of March, 1953, the 'doctor-murderers' were to be hanged on Red Square. Aroused patriots, naturally led by instructors, were to rush off to in cite an anti-Jewish pogrom. And at this point . . . the government would intervene generously to save the Jews from the wrath of the people. On that very same night it would remove them from Moscow to the Far East and Siberia, where barracks were already prepared for them...