Word: wrath
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...really "won" Nicaragua. If the election of Violeta Barrios de Chamorro as President last week reflected anything, it was the people's rejection of the pain they have endured for a decade. Give us a chance, they said. End the war. Save the economy. The immediate target of their wrath was the Sandinistas, but the U.S. too bears a share of responsibility. It now owes Nicaragua generous help if it wants democracy to flourish...
...Airborne One, I do not wish to incur your wrath," the angel stammered, "but I feel that you have been too harsh on the Crimson...
...cutters. But after initially expressing interest in Moynihan's plan, many Democrats by last week were giving it a wary, and sometimes hostile, second look. Speaker of the House Tom Foley expressed "reservations" about the idea. Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, a Chicago Democrat who has felt the wrath of senior-citizens groups over the catastrophic-health-care surtax, dubbed the proposal a "disaster." Democrats feared that the budget squeeze on other domestic programs, already harsh, would be still worse if the Government had to go hunting for billions to replace the lost Social Security revenue...
...ever lived, with his cloud arches and burning transparencies, his glooms and veils of color. Church had seen a few Turners, which had found their way to America by then; he was also much influenced by the vast apocalyptic paintings of John Martin, The Great Day of His Wrath and The Last Judgement, shown in New York soon after they were painted in the 1850s. Church wanted to stun and to instruct, to absorb the "Holy Book" of nature along with the Holy Writ of John Ruskin's writings...
...Russian, a double affront to the proud nationalism of countries that believed the West ended at Poland's eastern frontier. Once it became clear that Gorbachev meant what he said, the opposition -- tightly organized as in Poland or inchoate as in East Germany and Czechoslovakia -- rose up in wrath. Without the backing of the Soviet army, local satraps dared not use their security forces and probably did not know if they could trust them. The communist parties tried to buy off the people with leadership shuffles and semireforms, but that was not the point. Communist dictatorship could not be reformed...