Word: wrathful
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...also of the original ban. If this strategy persists and succeeds, Clinton will have won judicial sanction for the old policy. Clearly, there is much more opportunity for gain than loss in allowing Hatter's ruling to stand, even if it means risking Sam Nunn's bigoted and selfish wrath...
...tainted--from the president of Stanford University, who "appropriated" federal grants for home improvements, to the Yale president who decided to forego his comfortable (albeit quasi-academic) appointment to go into business in a completely forprofit "educational" enterprise. Still, it seems odd that the government should focus its antitrust wrath on MIT and eight Ivy League schools...
...Cradling (Viking; 297 pages; $22.50) conveys the surrealism of the ordeal, the loss of control and melting of identity that come with realizing that you are a pawn in someone else's game. Raised working-class Catholic in Belfast, Keenan is familiar with ethnic hatreds and the politics of wrath. He had a chip on his shoulder, a degree in English literature and had just begun to teach English literature in Beirut when he was grabbed by the Islamic Jihad...
Poor Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky knew what she was doing when she cast her vote for the Clinton budget. Rather than suffer the immediate wrath of Tom Foley et. al., she chose to hope that the economy will be on surer footing in 1994, and that her voters will have short memories...
...confusion in the McAllister household. Along the way Spink seduces the more vulnerable of Ellie's friends (she even supplies him with the change he needs to buy the requisite condom), cheats the Nunns, presents an exorbitant bill for his nonexistent services. In the end he flees everyone's wrath as he gathers up his family in order to escape an eviction notice on his own house...