Word: wrathful
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...already banking on the hope that America couldn’t possibly do anything worse to the country than has already been done. It is also hoping that its feebleness, abject misery and pleading will spare it more damage. Afghanistan knew that harboring bin Laden would earn them the wrath of America, but figured that the 2,000 or 3,000 men that bin Laden could supply to protect them from the immediate threat of opposition invasion was worth...
...Taliban's rush to proclaim the innocence of their guest is hardly surprising, of course, since they may be first in line to suffer Washington's wrath - President Bush emphasized Tuesday that the U.S. will not differentiate between the perpetrators and those that have harbored them. But retaliation remains a complex challenge when terrorists act independently rather than on behalf of any state. Unlike the state-sponsored terrorism of the Cold War era, Bin Laden runs a self-financing "Islamist International" forged among like-minded fighters from throughout the Muslim world who earned their stripes as volunteers in the Afghan...
Sharon knew the retreat risked the wrath of Israel's right wing. For on the world stage, Arafat gives no quarter; at the U.N. conference on racism in South Africa last week, he condemned what he called Israel's "colonial, racist plot" against the Palestinians. Settlers who live in Israeli outposts in the West Bank and Gaza have long considered the Prime Minister one of their champions. Almost three months ago, Sharon visited the hospital bedside of a five-month-old boy injured by a stone thrown at his parents' car as they drove to their home in the Shilo...
...that Israel is facing the same threat--a virulent terrorist campaign operating out of Yasser Arafat's Palestine and directed against innocent Israeli civilians--the wrath of the world has descended upon Israel for daring to respond by "assassinating" those who are running the terrorist operation...
Captain Underpants is America's most unlikely superhero, fighting for "truth, justice and all that is preshrunk and cottony." There are 12.5 million copies of the wildly popular children's books based on this character, with the newest one, Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman (Scholastic), coming out this month. TIME interviewed the captain's irreverent creator, Dav Pilkey, by e-mail...