Word: wrath
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...outraged Capehart did not think it was necessary "to have persons snooping to see whether a Senator holds up his hand. I wish to say that I do not like such tactics," sniffed Capehart. The incident was portentous. Before the week was out, sniffs had swelled into snorts of wrath, and rumpled, hollow-eyed and unshaven Senators were on a parliamentary rampage...
...Harry S. Truman has been inspecting a plane. He went in smiling, and he comes out as if he were returning from hell. How many other times has he got stuck without knowing how to get out? And he keeps getting stuck, to his own sorrow and the justified wrath of many others...
...picked up his morning CRIMSON and read "Ku Klux Klan at Harvard--Awaits moment to strike. 'We may be inactive, but our influence is felt' are the Leader's ominous words." The undergraduate began looking over his shoulder to see if he were being followed. President Lowell rose in wrath to expose the miscreants and stamp out any trace of the Klan at Harvard...
Faulty paragraphing or a brace of misspelled words on a final exam this week may bring the wrath of the committee down upon the head of some unsuspecting Social Relations man. Indeed, so broad are the powers of this little-publicized group that it can hold up a student's degree if it deems his use of English unsatisfactory...
...Postponed a vote on the bill to send wheat to famine-threatened India. Reason: congressional wrath at Prime Minister Nehru's statement that no strings must be attached; he would not barter away India's "self-respect or freedom of action even for something we need so badly." The House was mad because it hadn't attached any strings...