Word: wrathful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...table in the Montreal Casino over intersession when he exclaimed, “I’ve got this game figured out. I just can’t lose money at this table.” His hubris seems to have brought the wrath of the gambling gods upon him; after three more hands, Johnson ended up down $2,800. Having lost all his cash and maxed out his bank account, Johnson had no funds for cabfare and was forced to navigate Montreal’s confusing bus system to get back to his hotel. It took him three days...
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO The Wrath of Mount Nyiragongo Lava poured down the slopes of Mount Nyiragongo and through the eastern Congolese city of Goma, destroying everything in its path and sending hundreds of thousands of people fleeing for their lives. U.N. officials put the death toll at about 50, as displaced people lined roads into Rwanda and gathered in the town of Gisenyi. As the 3,469-m volcano continued to spew molten rock, earthquakes shook the area and a cloud of smoke hung in the air. The lava flow ended in Lake Kivu, on the border...
...above all a prophet—offering a “prophetic Christian perspective,” as he frequently puts it, on the evils of the contemporary world. Racism, homophobia, capitalist oppression of all stripes—these are the objects of West’s Isaiah-like wrath, which he calls down not only on the usual round of suspects, but on the black middle class, which he condemns for being “paid off” and castigates for their “conspicuous consumption and hedonistic indulgence.” Is there a slight contradiction...
...rehab program in Beijing, she knows she will have to tell her mother about the extravagant expense. After all, you can't hide an 8-cm growth spurt. But Xiaohong's not worried. "When I am tall, I will be able to face many obstacles," she says?even the wrath of a parsimonious mother...
...Other independent voices have also felt the Prime Minister's wrath. Thaksin has used his weekly radio address to ridicule some of Thailand's leading bankers and economists for making gloomy forecasts. Newspaper editors say Thaksin's Shin Corp., the country's largest advertiser, pulls ads if they report unfavorably on the government. (Government officials deny this charge.) Unhappy with coverage of himself in the foreign media, Thaksin and his advisers have also accused journalists from several Western news publications?including TIME?of bias and of being part of a smear campaign against him. The climate of intimidation has some...