Word: wrathful
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...angry letters and calls from the environment and conservation lobbies. Some of the protests came from members of Congress, including Henry Reuss, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Conservation and Natural Resources. Then 50 irate conservationists waved placards in front of CBS's Washington office. Cause of the wrath: the firing of Field & Stream's widely known conservation writer, Michael Frome...
Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (1940, photographed by Gregg Toland), with Henry Fonda; and a Harold Lloyd short, Thursday...
...groups. He has made himself a one man force for bail reform, by invariably setting low bail for defendants of limited financial means who are arraigned before him. In a few widely publicized cases, such defendants have either jumped bail or committed crimes while free on bail, arousing the wrath of New York's politically influential Patrol man's Benevolent Association...
...notable exception to the back-the-incumbents trend: in Baltimore County, Md., Democratic voters rose up in wrath and routed what had been one of the strongest party machines in the nation for the past century. Corruption has been a way of life in the county, as the Spiro Agnew case dramatized. But the indictment for corruption-and the subsequent resignation-of Democratic County Executive Dale Anderson last spring apparently were too much. The voters defeated ten party regulars, ranging from Frederick L. Dewberry, Anderson's successor, to four candidates for the Baltimore County council...
...man?Judaism, Christianity, Islam?have historically demanded that a wrongdoer, no matter how highly placed, repent before he is forgiven. King David of Israel, warned by the prophet Nathan of impending punishment for his crime in stealing Bathsheba, threw himself into days of fasting and prayer to avert divine wrath. King Henry II of England, whose burst of temper led to the murder of Thomas a Becket, submitted to a barebacked scourging by the monks of Canterbury as part of his penance for his complicity in the crime. Such dramatic mortifications may have sometimes masked a lack of genuine contrition...