Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...depths of the sea and the limits of space. In an instant of high-arching pride as men vault to these ambitious goals, fate fells them, and they return to the dust from which they came. The ancient Greek tragedies are cautionary tales of how men incur the wrath of the gods by trying to be gods...
...unrealistic to expect him to use public jawboning on any wide scale. But he might at least modify his insistence that he will never jawbone at all. Such a change would keep union and business leaders guessing as to how big a wage or price boost might draw presidential wrath. And that unccrtainty might serve to help slow the rate of inflation...
When Alexander Dubček was sent off to Ankara two months ago as Czechoslovakia's Ambassador to Turkey, it appeared that he had been saved from the full wrath of the Communist Party's ultraconservatives. The "ultras" wanted to try Dubček, hero of the liberalizing "Prague spring" of 1968, for his ideological sins. The man who replaced him as party boss, Gustav Husák, pledged repeatedly that there would be no retributions. Husák, after all, spent nine years in prison in the 1950s as the victim of a Stalinist purge...
...summer in southern California and all their hopes were blasted by the wrath of the sun and of the wind. The drought came, and though they carried water to their virtually inaccessible fields, still their crops withered: potatoes came forth shriveled from the ground, the feathery tops of the carrots appeared to be molting and the very grass drooped sadly...
...between Labor Secretary George Shultz and a group of union leaders headed by James Rademacher, head of the National Association of Letter Carriers, promised a back-to-work movement in exchange for negotiations on a wage increase. Rademacher himself sent telegrams urging strikers to abide by the ageement. "Public wrath shall replace support" if workers stay out, he warned. "Reason must prevail." But the strikers hooted down their leaders. For them, money is the crucial issue. Embittered by what they consider their subsistence-level pay ($6,176 to start, $8,442 after 21 years), they resisted?at least over...