Word: wrath
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...situation has political potentialities. Frustrated Canadian drinkers, full of wrath and woe, naturally blame the Government. Their term for the great parch: "Mackenzie King Prohibition...
...trained ear of the British Foreign Office, the charge was a challenge. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden set to work to make sure that hotheaded Poles gave a soft answer to Red wrath. In his endeavor he had the aid of reasonable, democratic Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk and of a Polish Socialist, Deputy Premier Jan Kwapinski. With other moderates in the Polish Cabinet, these men labored long last week to produce an answer which-so they thought-would mend the worst fracture in the United Nations' frame. Five times the Cabinet met. Five times Mikolajczyk or Foreign Minister Tadeusz Romer...
...World's Full of Girls (adapted by Nunnally Johnson from Thomas Bell's novel Till I Come Back to You; produced by Jed Harris). Nunnally Johnson, one of Hollywood's surest-footed scripters (The Grapes of Wrath, Holy Matrimony), slithers about rather badly on Broadway. The World's Full of Girls has nice dialogue, some pleasant scenes. But it suggests a wobbly coupling of two plays rather than a dramatization of one novel. Half of it portrays a large Brooklyn family addicted to quarrels and adorned "with quirks; the other half describes the punctured-and-repaired...
...Parry. When Marshal Pétain attempted recently to promulgate his own eleventh-hour "democracy" (TIME, Nov. 29), he proved himself still to be a man to watch. His move was shrewd. Its purpose : to attract the many Frenchmen who still revere his name, the many who fear the wrath of Gaullist and guerrilla alike when liberation comes, the many who have something to lose in a postliberation purge...
...Handbills." "Some eastern Republicans," snorted the Tribune, for no apparent reason, "have shown a disposition to crawl under the furniture whenever they have been threatened with the terrible wrath of the New York Herald Tribune or even the New York Post. Why anyone should ever have feared the displeasure of such little handbills . . . is a mystery...