Word: wrathful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...John McCain had his own expectations to wrestle, having landed on the cover of both newsmagazines, invoked the wrath of the Talk Radio gods, cockily campaigned in Mitt Romney's home state as though determined to bury him there once and for all. McCain remained the Man to Beat, but his opponents were giving it their best shot. Seeing Romney closing in on him in California, McCain's forces joined hands with Huckabee's to deny Romney a victory in the West Virginia caucus; on the second ballot, with McCain's help, Huckabee won with 52% of the vote. Romney...
...paramilitary tactics were imitated by the rival Sinaloa cartel, which trained thousands of up-and-coming thugs in weapons and communications. After years of mutual beheadings and massacres, the two cartels recently made a truce, deciding the bloodshed was bad for business, Mexican and U.S. law officials say. The wrath of both cartels is now turned on the government...
...before, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had faced the Arab world's wrath when his riot police attacked Palestinian women protesting the closed border. Mubarak wasn't about to do it again, despite pressure from Israel and the U.S. The Egyptian President said he ordered his troops to "let them come to eat and buy food and go back, as long as they are not carrying weapons...
...previous day, President Housni Mubarak faced the wrath of the Arab world when his riot police used clubs and water hoses to attack Palestinian women pleading for Egypt to open the Rafah crossing in Gaza. And despite pressure from Israel and the United States, Mubarak wasn't about to order his men to use force to restrain Palestinians rendered desperate by Israel's siege. The Egyptian President said he ordered his troops to "let them come to eat and buy food and go back, as long as they are not carrying weapons...
...While not opposed to the U.S. missile-defense project, Poland and the Czech Republic are increasingly concerned about the potential consequences of provoking Russia. Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski has said that the "worst case scenario" would be for Poland to incur Moscow's wrath by accepting the project, only to see it canned by a subsequent Administration in Washington. Poland, he argued, should be in no rush to sign on to the deal before carefully examining the consequences for Polish national interests. "This is an American, not a Polish project," he said. "We feel no threat from Iran." Defense Minister...