Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Burn, my son, with wrath...
...quiet, portly intellectual, Tupolev predicted in 1922 that aviation's future lay in all-metal planes, then began designing almost one a year. Despite his productivity and a long list of aviation records, his defense of a friend during purges of the 1930s earned him Stalin's wrath-and a five-year stay in prison. Released during World War II, Tupolev achieved one of his greatest technical triumphs when he copied the design of a grounded U.S. B-29 and put a Soviet version into production within a year. Tupolev remained active until his 80s, and is thought...
...recognized, is that the servant also speaks to these particular masters with vox Dei. The servant tries to warn the master that if he persists in his extravagant behavior, be it passion or madness, he affronts not only the social but the cosmic order, and will incur the vengeful wrath of the gods. The servant dare not speak too freely lest he be cuffed or dismissed. The master pulls his rank and fails to heed. And thus these overweening master-heroes plunge to their doom...
...California farmer who markets produce supposed to be "organic"-free of insecticide and chemical fertilizer-is known to spray his crops at night to protect them from insects and himself from his customers' wrath...
...garbage business to private hands include Boston, Omaha, Detroit, Dallas and Charleston, S.C. Indeed, only bureaucratic lethargy and union opposition prevent more cities from contracting with private companies. When Milwaukee, for instance, closed its antiquated city incinerators and hired an independent company to handle waste disposal, it incurred union wrath because 260 municipal sanitation workers were laid...