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Word: wrathful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...blind to the fact that many more people, some of them innocent civilians, will perish if indeed we retaliate with force. Any American who chooses to focus more on helping the people affected by this terrible event and hoping or praying for peace rather than evoking the wrath of the military on Afghanistan is still a patriotic and just citizen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 9/20/2001 | See Source »

Long, unlike most Americans, I am happy to say, fails to grasp the concept that when a group of people hijack four airlines and crash them into major U.S. landmarks, they have lost the privilege of reasoning through their grievances, and deserve not our empathy, but our wrath. The Twin Towers, above all else, stood as a symbol of rationality and human achievement, and it is this rationality that the suicide bombers of Sept. 11 sought to destroy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 9/20/2001 | See Source »

...surprising, then, that the requirements of coalition building spurred the Bush administration over the last week to knock Israeli and Palestinian heads together. Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat were told in no uncertain terms that the game had changed, and that both sides would face the wrath of the international community unless they do more to forge a cease-fire. Nobody's expecting miracles, but changing the tone of Israeli-Palestinian relations is considered critical to maintaining the all-important Arab support for the anti-terror coalition. Still, it'll take a lot more than an Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Draining Bin Laden's Swamp | 9/20/2001 | See Source »

...They have to understand, and others like them have to understand,” Cheney said. “If you provided sanctuary to terrorists, you face the full wrath of the United States of America...

Author: By Lucas L. Tate, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: U.S. Prepares To Strike Back | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...wrong time for spinning. When Bush listened to his p.r. team and worried about his image, he was at his worst. When he listened to his conscience, turned his back on evangelists Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, who had suggested that the bombings might be God's wrath on gays, lesbians, feminists and civil libertarians, he was becoming the kind of leader we need. And when he mourned victims and comforted survivors and rallied the nation from the rubble, he began to discover his best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A President Finds His Voice | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

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