Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refugees who stayed on in Hué found spots on the grassy banks of the Perfume River if they were lucky, in fetid vacant buildings if they were not. "Highway 1 is the setting for this Asian Grapes of Wrath,"' reported TIME Correspondent David DeVoss. "Some families ride atop trucks, others are jammed as many as five to a Honda, but most of them walk. Exhaustion, hunger and heat are not the only enemies they face. Land mines, carefully planted each night by the North Vietnamese, take their daily toll in suffering...
Target No. 1 of the reformers' righteous wrath is-guess who?-Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, bloody but unbowed from recent election setbacks. How can anyone call for more democratic selection procedures and yet impose quotas? he wants to know, not entirely illogically. But a group of anti-Daley Chicagoans have filed a 43-page brief charging the 59-man bloc controlled by him with violating just about every rule in the McGovern book...
...military has been somewhat excessive in its zeal to preserve order. The army commander of Ankara, for instance, closed down a display of pictures of President Nixon's China visit, sponsored by the Turkish-American Association. Showings of two U.S. movie classics, Citizen Kane and The Grapes of Wrath, were halted because their themes were considered too controversial. Reports persist that some antigovernment critics who were jailed in the crackdown have been tortured...
Family quarrels are a recurring nightmare for policemen, who frequently end up on the receiving end of a warring couple's wrath. In an effort to be more effective at peacemaking, an increasing number of police departments are now trying a new strategy. They are sending policewomen to do what was once strictly a male cop's job. The reason: women seem to calm these disputes far better than men. "Some of these families will call you back two or three times a night," observes a battle-tested Indianapolis patrolman, "but I've noticed that when...
...inexhaustible wardrobe of sports clothes. The dietitian relieves the tedium of the countless hours Carey spends searching Boston and environs for a murderous abortionist. A friend of Carey's has been falsely accused of performing the abortion, an injustice as certain to raise the good doctor's wrath as burning a hole in one of his mohair pullovers...