Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Exodus, Aaron smote the waters of Egypt with his rod and the waters turned to blood. Across the U.S. in steamy midsummer, it seemed that at least a few of Pharaoh's plagues were descending-a reminder, if not of biblical wrath, then of nature's perplexing force...
...Colombo survives, he will face not only the continued wrath of his colleagues in crime but a one-to-21-year jail sentence for perjury. When he applied for a real estate broker's license, he was indiscreet enough to try to disguise his criminal record. In addition he is under indictment for larceny and conspiracy in a $750,000 diamond robbery on Long Island, and he will soon go on trial for tax evasion. Lawmen may no longer proclaim that they are going after the "Mafia" thanks to Colombo's efforts, but they are intent on pursuing at least...
...only because he had to be careful of every step, every move, to make sure that he never compromised himself again, never left himself open for the withering criticism which he once received, never antagonized people enough to demand his resignation publicly this time. His first exposure to the wrath of the people he thought were in his camp had shocked him to a degree even he could not understand...
...interesting point. Democratic Senator George McGovern recently incurred Ky's wrath by inquiring into printed reports that the Vice President was involved in the smuggling of opium into South Viet Nam. Ky has vehemently denied the accusations, and no evidence has linked him to the trade...
...King in marriage). King also accounts for the embarrassing liberal gestures with which he at first tried to ingratiate himself with blacks. In this category of self-revelation the author supplies a number of chilling documentary anecdotes: how, as an Army officer in the late forties, he risked the wrath of the law by bringing a black prisoner with him into the white club car. only to discover in amazement that the black would rather have "rode with [his] own people"; how, sick in an army infirmary, he good-naturedly told a solicitous black orderly that he guessed his civilian...