Word: wroth
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...Hell. The situation had become almost a national scandal. The majority of the war-working U.S. didn't give a hoot for all the vacationers' sufferings. Rhode Island waxed so wroth over the stranded-tourist situation that its State Senate passed a resolution condemning Florida for withholding gas for return, trips. (Rhode Island's Governor J. Howard McGrath canceled a hard-won reservation at Miami Beach's swank Roney Plaza...
...draft board's reply to this imposing intercession was that young Mr. Smith could be deferred to July (because he is a student) but no longer. Trumpeted old Cotton Ed, wroth at all the publicity: "Character assassins . . . unprincipled individuals . . . unprecedented for a draft board to lend itself to a murderous assault...
Lounging in Boston's Ritz-Carlton this week. Ambassador Joseph Patrick Kennedy talked to Louis M. Lyons of the Boston Globe, two other newsmen, was mightily wroth when he saw Reporter Lyons' bylined story of the interview. Excerpt: "Democracy [said Kennedy] is finished in England. . . . It's all an economic question. I told the President in the White House last Sunday, 'Don't send me 50 admirals and generals, send me a dozen real economists.' . . . It's all a question of what we do with the next six months. The whole reason...
...militaristic Old Testament and glossed over the New; 3) that he had skipped the Old Testament's direst precedent against registration-II Samuel XXIV, wherein King David ordered a military census. It showed a count of 1,300,000 "valiant men that drew the sword" but the Lord, wroth at David, punished his presumption by killing 70,000 of them with pestilence in three days...
...holy Marxist doctrine. Comrade Cannon sided with Prophet Trotsky, who in long epistles to the infidels condemned the Stalinists' means but condoned their ends. Soon Marxists Cannon and Schachtman were as doctrinally tangled as two Fundamentalist preachers, one of whom is a dipper and the other a sprinkler. Wroth, Trotsky called Schachtman "the floating kidney of the working class...