Word: wrath
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...Harvard students escape the humorous wrath of Jerry. It seems he spent an afternoon running about the Yard, telling book-toting students, "I know you have to work, but I thought I'd just let you know that I'm going to get some pizza." Jerry boasted, "I'm proud that I don't know what the Treaty of Versailles...
None of this would really be bothersome were it not for all the aggressors who merit the U.N.'s wrath more than logo usurpers. Maybe U.N. partisans with a yen for legal intrigue could come up with some type of lawsuit to force the organization to end its support...
...been misled. In 1956 Mao launched the Hundred Flowers campaign, which invited criticism of party policies. The program took its name from the ancient Chinese slogan, "Let a hundred flowers bloom, and a hundred schools of thought contend." Those who dared to speak, however, became the targets of official wrath once the government line turned conservative. Chinese intellectuals fear they may again have been encouraged to stick out their necks, only to find that their heads will be chopped...
...black populace. Barbara Harker, training manager in Johannesburg for the National Institute for Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation of Offenders, has studied the comrades. She concluded that the poverty and hopelessness of life in the townships make them impulsive and largely incapable of compromise. The primary object of their wrath is anyone suspected of collaborating with the government. The victim's "crime" can be trivial or wholly nonexistent. Even payment of rent for government-owned housing can be a capital offense. Some recent victims...
...summit triples, and then down "World Cup" we were a little disappointed. The night before the sno-cats had ground up the snow into golf ball-sized chunks--not the greatest surface for skiing. But the lower half of the mountain had been spared the sno-cats' wrath and was as good skiing as we would see on any mountain that...