Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Oliver's suit naturally incurred the wrath of the Medical Association of Georgia. By no coincidence, the Georgia legislature passed a bill, which the Governor recently signed, forbidding anyone without an M.D. degree to put those initials after his name. Oliver charged that the legislation was lobbied through specifically to affect his pending case. Last week the three-judge federal court ruled in his favor; pending any appeal by the board, he is now Richard Oliver...
...resolved itself. Alan's strong dependency on his faith brings inevitable crisis. His Belief is finally circumstantial: turned off when his father dies, turned back on when his own death threatens. His notions of a benevolent God of rescue is threatened by his belief in a God of Wrath or an apathetic Creator...
...Shortly after Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law last September, American Jesuit Vincent Cullen was clapped into jail. The reason: Cullen was a social action director on the island of Mindanao, where his labors on behalf of minorities and poor farmers in a land dispute provoked the wrath of local officials. Now Cullen has been released, but is under the custody of the Philippines provincial. While Cullen chafes, a fellow Jesuit, Father James Donelan, regularly offers Mass at Marcos' Malacanang Palace, and other Jesuits have given retreats for the President...
...pursuing his independent course in the Senate, Ervin has deplored wiretapping by federal authorities but has shown little concern about it at state and local levels. He drew the wrath of Women's Liberationists by fighting the women's rights amendment to the Constitution, terming it the "unisex amendment" and contending that it would deprive women of such present legal benefits as exemption from the draft and freedom from prosecution for non-support of children. Despite his church-going constituency, he has fought attempts to permit prayer in public schools. The Constitution, he insists, has wisely erected...
...specific target of their wrath was Defense Minister Michel Debré, whose new draft law ended student deferments for anyone over 21. The police reacted sternly to the protest, in some cases clubbing down the students, but the next day, not entirely by coincidence, Debré let it be known that he would not be a member of President Georges Pompidou's new Cabinet. The same day, it was announced that the controversial Loi Debré would be reconsidered...