Word: wrath
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...people to hate you. In his two months as proprietor of Marty's Morgue, a local interview show over Chicago's station WBKB. he has cheerfully managed to provoke daily threats of violence; in addition, he has brought down around his balding head the wrath of the town's teenagers, who bombard him with up to 1,00 letters a week for butchering their sacred cows...
Somewhat to the doctor's dismay, his patient rose up in wrath. To a man. the four-minute milers scoffed at his direct implication that they were hopped up for their races. Said Britain's Roger (3:58.8) Bannister, who first cracked the "barrier" in May 1954: "I have never even contemplated using such drugs myself." Don (3:58.7) Bowden, University of California miler who this month became the first American to go under the mark, called the charge "ridiculous and silly." Said Australia's world recordholder John (3:58) Landy...
...Students felt that their prized individualism, "completely self-wrought," would be taken away once they were forced to live and dine with a group of people chosen by Faculty members. The CRIMSON attacked the plan, and the Lampoon published a "Protest of the Masses Number" which heaped the full wrath of the Faculty and Administration upon its head. An apology to Mr. Harkness was demanded, and the 'Poonies, moaning that no one understood them, grudgingly gave it. Later, it was reported that the University was so angered by this issue that they were planning to take up the Lampoon...
...scheme for construction of a "satellite city" which would house 12,000 Florentines who now live either in slums or on the streets. The project aroused the esthetic displeasure of famed Art Expert Bernard Berenson: it would lie on the road to his villa. And it aroused the political wrath of the Social Democrats because of La Pira's failure to consult them. Faced with the likelihood of a vote of "no confidence," La Pira resigned as mayor...
Economic fumbling and pressure on the banks at last turned Colombia's business. men against Rojas; corruption and killing earned him the wrath of the church. Toward the end of last week, ignoring Rojas' attempt to smooth over the rift, Colombia's Primate Crisanto Cardinal Luque issued a pastoral letter with his bitterest attack yet on Rojas. That night, the dictator's military supporters gathered for a worried meeting...