Word: wrath
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...produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting depotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other... The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals...
...less than the standard $59.95-to-$79.95 price tag for hit movies. The cassette quickly sold 80,000 copies at a time when sales of 25,000 were considered the video equivalent of earning a gold record. Paramount has had several other $39.95 smashes, including Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Flashdance (the current No. 1 bestseller) and now Raiders...
...current arrangement works against the interest of Israel: Israel builds up its military power, but it also incurs the ever-increasing wrath of the world. While the U.S. is a powerful backer, the recent histories of Vietnam and Iran suggest that even all-out American support can sometimes prove insufficient. And Israel, as so many have noted, can only lose a war once...
Tailbacks weren't the only targets of the Crimson's defensive wrath. On the first drive of the second half, Holy Cross worked its way to a third and two from the Harvard 28. Clemens had told his forces what to expect. Quarterback Peter Muldoon's sneak left the Cross with a fourth and one. Clemens crowded four tackles and two linebacks into the middle. Muldoon's second sneak lost a yard, and the Cross had been stopped...
...scarcely any surprise that the violence in Grenada angered Desi Bouterse, the paranoid dictator of Suriname (pop. 350,000), about 600 miles away on the coast of South America. What raised eyebrows was that Bouterse, a self-styled Marxist, directed his wrath not against the U.S. but against his ally Cuba. Last week he abruptly expelled Havana's Ambassador, giving him six days to get out of the country, and suspended all Cuban cultural and education agreements. Bouterse's explanation: "The leadership of the Suriname revolution is convinced that a repetition of developments in Grenada should be prevented...