Word: wrathful
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...King in marriage). King also accounts for the embarrassing liberal gestures with which he at first tried to ingratiate himself with blacks. In this category of self-revelation the author supplies a number of chilling documentary anecdotes: how, as an Army officer in the late forties, he risked the wrath of the law by bringing a black prisoner with him into the white club car. only to discover in amazement that the black would rather have "rode with [his] own people"; how, sick in an army infirmary, he good-naturedly told a solicitous black orderly that he guessed his civilian...
Shift Right. The Armbruster report earned the conservatives' wrath by concluding that there were no Scriptural or dogmatic grounds for forbidding either a married priesthood or the ordination of women. It described the "charism" of celibacy and the "charism" of the ministry as two separate spiritual gifts not always granted to the same person. In reply, Hartford Archbishop John Whealon recommended at a press conference that bishops "abort the present approach" in favor of "scholarly, disciplined theological research...
...crushing blow to civic pride fell when William Ford (brother of Henry) announced that he would move his football Lions to suburban Pontiac. Only the certain wrath of city officials keeps J.L. Hudson Co. from shutting its main department store, which suffered $9,000,000 worth of pilferage last year. "We would close the downtown store in a minute if we could do it without being crucified," admits one Hudson executive. With mordant humor, a banner at a recent press-club banquet asked: WILL THE LAST COMPANY TO LEAVE DETROIT PLEASE TURN OFF THE LIGHTS...
Within two days, even city hall became aware-with surprise-that the mayor's words had appalled many people outside his special world. However, Royko notes, the official strategy chosen to turn away public wrath was right in character. "It was damn bad reporting," the mayor's public relations counsel said, mildly chiding the press as he presented them with a classic non sequitur: "They should have printed what he meant, not what he said...
...niceties of intellectual bestiality, out there where men live, verbal violence and physical violence blend together into an unbroken continuum. Brave words are considered brave because of the physical commitment that lies behind them. But those who depend on the restraints of etiquette in order to escape the wrath of those they assault are only playing revolution. Such fakes are despised...