Word: wrath
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...blazing floodlights, its elaborate wrought-iron gateway and its superb kitchen reached the receptive ears of Tory Donald Kaberry, M.P. Kaberry denounced Lapper and his board in the House of Commons as "little tsars of the government's creation [who] build their Kremlins . . . and shrink from the wrath of public opinion." The Attorney General ordered an investigation...
...Balkan invasion. What he did fight for, and did not get, was a conquest of the Aegean Islands that might bring Turkey into the war on the allied side. Because they blocked his pet plan, both F.D.R. and Eisenhower got a taste of Churchillian wrath: "There ought, I think, to be some elasticity and a reasonable latitude in the handling of our joint affairs ... I will not waste words in explaining how painful this decision...
...girls were willing, but Barrio Antioquia's 25,000 citizens rose up in wrath. Signs appeared on many houses: "The inhabitants of this house will not leave, nor will its owners rent it for a house of prostitution...
...bargain. Shute, in turn, grew tired of office quickly and finagled the honor for Belcher. So Jonathon Belcher, future saviour of Princeton, became Governor of Massachusetts in 1729. His reign was highlighted by an attempt to shake down the Massachusetts General Court for a higher salary by invoking the wrath of the King. This maneuver multiplied his enemies and they ousted Belcher from office...
Unlike most of his Puritan contemporaries, Williams was tolerant of those who did not believe as he did.* His Christian always turned the other cheek: "How quietly, without the swellings of revenge and wrath, should we bear the daily injuries, reproaches, persecutings, etc., from the hands of men who pass away and wither (it may be before night) like grass, or as the smoke on the chimney...