Word: wrath
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Nasser was moved to wrath by a recent, offhand press-conference remark by the Shah of Iran, who said that though Iran does not formally recognize Israel, it does recognize the Israeli government de facto. Iran is not an Arab nation, but it is a Moslem one, and Nasser thought that this was letting down the side. Nasser also knew that for some time Iranian oil has been secretly sold to Israel, in defiance of the Arab League boycott which U.S. oil companies generally adhere...
...General Dynamics' Convair Division, was appointed vice president in charge of planning of the Fairbanks Whitney Corp., a big (1959 sales: $149 million), diversified manufacturing outfit. Lanphier's outspoken criticisms of the Administration's defense effort and blunt attacks on rival missile makers brought down the wrath of General Dynamics Chairman Frank Pace, who forced Lanphier out. Lanphier then campaigned for his longtime friend, Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, whose special assistant he had been when Symington was Secretary of the Air Force. When Symington lost to Kennedy in Los Angeles, Lanphier began to look...
Goldwater smiled a tight smile at the faithful, but he did not break his stride. Long the rising Senate spokesman of Republican conservatives-and, to his irritation, of wild-eyed fringe groups as well -Barry Goldwater found himself in the national eye as he spoke out in wrath against the Nixon-Rockefeller platform agreement ("Governor Rockefeller," he told the Arizona delegation, "is out to destroy the Republican Party"). By convention's end, Goldwater, in some imperceptible investiture, had been crowned king of the nation's conservatives just as surely as Dick Nixon won the nomination...
...with Castro, many among the peasant masses in these countries still have a misty, remote view of Castro as a savior of their kind, and as a symbol of rebellion against their miserable lot. A government that voted to condemn Castro in the OAS would risk popular wrath at home. Such being the case, the U.S. decided to present a formal list of Castro's excesses for the record, to justify the new U.S. policy of economic action against Castro that is beginning to take form...
...slums that blight the countryside, are out of work a third of the time, make an average of $1,700 a year, are not covered by most federal employment laws. All this makes the valley, once the scene of bitter strikes by the Okies and Arkies of Grapes of Wrath fame, fertile soil for labor unrest...