Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actions. Even if the former dean sincerely thought the Department was being mismanaged, he went to suspiciously great lengths to attempt to level it, including sabotaging the formation of the DuBois Institute. Incompetence had persisted in other departments of the Faculty without incurring the full force of Dunlop's wrath...
...that the Asians are gone, Amin appears to be in need of a new scapegoat for his country's troubles. The latest victims of his uncertain wrath are blacks from neighboring Kenya. In the past month, several Kenyans who held executive positions in Uganda have disappeared or been found murdered. When other Kenyans in Uganda began to flee in terror, Amin accused them, naturally, of being guerrillas and hinted that he might shut off the electricity that Uganda supplies to Kenya-25% of its total power. His freewheeling troops, meanwhile, crossed the Kenya border and rustled 4,000 cattle...
Stand Fast. Abortion foes promised action to match their wrath. Right to Life committees in Illinois and Texas quickly began planning a campaign for a constitutional amendment. The Roman Catholic Bishops' Committee for Pro-Life Affairs noted that "hospitals and health facilities under Catholic auspices will not find this compatible with their faith and moral convictions. We urge our doctors, nurses and healthcare personnel to stand fast in refusing to provide abortion on request." A Virginia group of Catholic laymen urged a "symbolic gesture": excommunication of William Brennan, the court's only Catholic and part of the majority...
...taken a fashion to the fast-handed fighter who stunned Sonny Liston with contemptuous authority. But, when after falling under the spell of Malcolm X, the religion of Islam, and the disciplined dignity of Elijah Muhammad's followers. Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali and Muhammad Ali attracted the wrath of white American bureaucratic brontosaurs like the WBA, the Selective Service, and the American Legion, the world beyond the buttons developed a clinging passion to the man who had become their champion. In Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Arab world, even in Europe, England and the American center cities, crowds...
...will Prevent a German Mussolini." The Dean of Radcliffe refused to allow her students to take part in a Harvard production of Molnar's "Olympia", "the worst play she had ever read." An editorial criticizing the drunken carryings-on of the American Legion convention in Boston brought the wrath of a nation--and scattered applause--on the paper, And, the editors announced. "The Crimson is now prepared to offer a 16 hour film developing, printing, and enlarging service by trained men. Film left before 5 p.m. will be ready the next morning...