Word: wrath
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Most Americans still think of the Oklahoma Dust Bowl, and the Okies who left it, in the bleak terms of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. The long drought of the 1930s seared the land, while recurring winds swirled away the topsoil and black blizzards choked crops and cattle. During that decade, more than 350,000 farmers fled the state, leaving a legacy of deserted homes, barren lands and bitter people. In recent years the Dust Bowl has changed dramatically. TIME Correspondent David DeVoss, who revisited the region, tells how and why in this report...
...network's handling of a major story was reassigned to cleaning records in the music library. A couple of weeks ago, on the air, an Air Force newscaster introducing a piece of analysis by Eric Sevareid wryly suggested that it was sufficiently after-the-fact to avoid "the wrath of Vice President Agnew." He found himself demoted to a production crew in Danang...
Perhaps the most pathetic imaginary being is the Lamed Wufnik of the Jews. One of 36 just men whose existence and virtue is supposed to protect the world from Jehovah's wrath, the Wufnik must justify the ways of the world before God. It is a hard but absorbing job, which lasts as long as the Wufnik does not know that he has it. Once a man discovers that he is really a Lamed Wufnik, he immediately drops dead and the title passes to somebody else...