Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voters are not waiting for the politicians on the issue; they are out ahead and dragging the candidates along with them. No. 1 target of their wrath is the property tax. In Chicago, a group called Citizens' Action Program is pressuring the state general assembly to impose a tax freeze in Illinois; it is hoped that the move will become a rallying point for the taxpayers. "The crisis has come," says Robert Creamer, CAP coordinator. "The solution now is to quit tinkering with the system. We've got to use a meat cleaver instead...
...regarded by the Chinese as capitalist imperialists. Hanoi had proposed that a political delegation be sent, headed by a deputy premier. Tokyo demurred, partly because it still recognizes Saigon as the legitimate government of Viet Nam, and also because it is reluctant to provoke Washington's wrath. Thus came the trade delegation, which will meet with Japanese political leaders, as well as with industrial tycoons. It is officially headed by the chief of the North Viet Nam Chamber of Commerce, Dang Thi. As it happens, though, he is also the principal aide to North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong...
Thus, with their own interpretations of the ancient rituals, a number of U.S. Jews marked the eight-day festival of Passover that ends this week. Most other Jews observed the feast in more traditional ways. But all told anew the old stories of Pharaoh's wrath and the Lord's good providence that took them out of Egypt, their house of bondage. Sometimes their Christian neighbors joined them, aware that their own celebration of Easter, just days away, was inextricably tied to the Jewish holiday...
...irony is that Eros and the other Ginzburg offerings of nine years ago now appear tame. Today they would be unlikely to attract either the law's wrath or the public's attention...
...expected, his appeal of the decision was rejected, though he got some support. The Inter-American Press Association protested and dailies in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and the U.S. joined in with editorial condemnation. Even Lima's independent El Comercio risked the regime's wrath by siding with Beltrán. But the government has obviously been gunning for him; it has already hounded one of his editors into exile and ordered Beltrán's gracious, 300-year-old Lima town house razed in the name of urban renewal...