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...dangers awaiting dauntless Theagenes and Charicleia. She is determined to achieve her rightful place in the world, having learned that she is actually the daughter of King Hydaspes of Ethiopia. Because Charicleia was born white, her terrified mother, Queen Persinna, had exposed her on a mountainside to escape the wrath of the King, but a kindly merchant found the infant and saw that she was transported safely to Greece. Before she can make it home. Charicleia is captured by pirates, sold into slavery, cast into a dungeon, poisoned, sentenced to be burned at the stake. She often shocks the rather...
Terrible-tempered Texan Tommy Bolt smoldered on a short fuse all afternoon. When the crowd cheered his missed putts he began to sputter; when they jeered a flubbed approach to the eighth green he exploded into club-throwing wrath. "It was demoralizing," Bolt complained later. "I thought these people were supposed to be sportsmen...
Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater served public notice that he "certainly will oppose" McKinney's appointment when it comes up for Senate confirmation. But Democrat McKinney can point to a detail that might soften Republican Goldwater's wrath: after the citizens' panel turned in its report on uses of the atom, McKinney handed back $17,000 of the $50,000 that Congress had appropriated for expenses...
...clothes drenched by the downpour that turned Comiskey Park into a quagmire, his spirits doused by the dismal sight of his favorites limping through their second game in a row, Chicago White Sox Fan Joseph Gorman was moved to rowdy wrath. He leaned over the visitors' dugout, took careful aim and treated Yankee Manager Casey Stengel to a faceful of beer. The response was expansive. "He wasn't cheap," said Casey of the attacker. "He hit me with a full cup." The feelings on both sides of the matter were plain. The White Sox were in the process...
Some time in the 20th century B.C., Sinuhe, an Egyptian who had fled there to escape Pharaoh's wrath, wrote of Syria: "Plentiful was its honey, abundant its oil and all fruit are on its trees." But Syria's early inhabitants-predominantly Semites-got little chance to enjoy the oil and honey. Around 2000 B.C. they were conquered by Hammurabi, the great lawgiver of Babylon; later their homeland was a perennial battleground for the Hittites and the Egyptians. Then Sennacherib the Assyrian "came down like the wolf on the fold," to be followed over the centuries by Nebuchadnezzar...