Word: wroth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Question of Heresy. The walkout at Ljubljana marked the worst crisis in relations between Russia and Yugoslavia since Khrushchev's crow-eating visit to Belgrade in 1955 to apologize for Stalin's 1948 expulsion of Yugoslavia from "the camp of Socialism." This time Khrushchev himself was wroth, because the draft program which Tito and his colleagues prepared for their party congress blamed...
...playing. Harth, on the other hand, got himself into trouble with some of the judges by playing too freely. When the vote was counted (Oistrakh giving both contestants identical, maximum scores), Violinist Fain nosed out Violinist Harth by 409 to 406 points. Some of the Western judges were wroth, argued that Louisville's Harth would have won but for open political partiality. At week's end the six top contestants played a joint concert in Warsaw, and the crowd put in its vote. Although encores were discouraged, Russia's Fain had to play one. To tumultuous applause...
Something Special. Both the President and Dulles were wroth, because in trying to guard against Childe Harold's famous flights of fancy, they had given him specific written instructions on how to proceed. Summoned home, he got no table-pounding from Dulles, but was sharply admonished to obey orders. Moreover he was told pointedly that Veteran State Department Careerman Julius Holmes, onetime second man in the London embassy, would soon join him as an adviser...
Letter-writers to the Alumni Bulletin in the spring of 1946 were wroth indeed--48 columns wroth, in fact, with amounts of outrage, protest, and indignation thrown in. That spring, it seems, the University had decided to rip down the ancient, tradition-mellowed Dana-Palmer House and erect Lamont Library on its site...