Word: wrathful
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With the Crimson’s passing game castrated by Hurricane Ivan’s wrath, Fitzpatrick did all he could trust his slick palms to do—and handed the ball off to Dawson...
...biodiversity through their research, studies and financial support is well recognized. But conventions, policies, scientific papers and money alone do not constitute protection. Ultimately, the dedication of field-based conservators makes the difference between success and failure. People on the job dodge rebels' bullets each day, or face the wrath of a mob led by angry parents who have just lost a son or a daughter to a big cat. The voices of those in the field should have been in your story. They are the true heroes. Devendra S. Rana Kathmandu, Nepal
...order have been Bangladesh's religious minorities. The Ahmadiyya, a tiny Muslim sect that is not recognized by the fundamentalists as being truly Muslim, has had to endure angry mobs surrounding its mosques, defacing the walls and disrupting religious services. The other prime target of the extremists' wrath is the country's large Hindu community, which has been repeatedly subjected to threats, rapes, arson, looting and assaults. Human-rights activists claim there has been little effort made to protect the Hindu community. "In many cases the police simply refuse to register complaints from Hindu victims," says Rabindra Ghosh, an activist...
...addition, Tsurumi is still sore about what he recalls as Bush’s slight to his cinematic taste. When he arranged for students to view the film of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath during their study of the Great Depression, Tsurumi said, Bush derided the film as “corny...
...parts of the world. The practice is not necessarily illegal, and many of the tax-reduction schemes used by Russian oil companies were devised by the same specialists who work for major Western corporations. Other Russian oil firms, like Sibneft, paid even lower rates without incurring the Kremlin's wrath. The root of the crisis lies in personal rivalry. Early in Putin's first presidential term, the oligarchs and the Kremlin made an informal agreement: if the oligarchs stayed out of politics, the Kremlin would not revisit the dubious privatization deals that brought them their billions. Khodorkovsky chafed under this...