Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After weeks of private debate, President Clinton approved the base closing commission's recommendations -- but not before publicly agonizing over the decision. Trying to spare himself from the wrath of voters in the hard hit states of California and Texas, Clinton today attacked the commission and those who suggested his concerns over closings in California were merely political. "You tell me that my concern over that economic situation, when the unemployment rate is 8 1/2 percent is political?" Clinton asked. White House spokesman Mike McCurry admitted, though, thatelection politics had something to do with the President's concern...
...within flyswatter distance while she flailed in my direction. At best, she made contact about ten percent of the time ... Locked together this way, the two of us would spin from room to room with Grandma at our perimeter in her wheelchair, scolding and bitching and calling down the wrath of God on that spoiled ungrateful child...
...movie that reduced a small army of bad guys to blood-splattered pieces. Then again, it starred Arnold Schwarzenegger, a G.O.P. muscleman. Another sometime Republican, Bruce Willis, is the star of Die Hard with a Vengeance, one of the many brutal-fun action pictures that escaped Dole's wrath. So did the gleefully smutty-minded Fox television network and its contributions to the history of crotch-grabbing, such as Married ... With Children. Fox is owned by Rupert Murdoch, a major contributor to conservative causes...
...easier to defend free speech when no one hears it. The N.R.A. is about power. It gets it by whipping its members to a frenzy of antigovernment paranoia. It holds their attention and picks their wallets by flaunting its control over politicians who crave its approval or fear its wrath or just want its campaign money. And it very clearly won't relinquish even an iota of its influence without a fight...
...This means that when a woman marries, the lord of her district will have the right/duty to have sex with her. The English soldiers interpret this new plan as license to take any woman they see, and Murron catches the eye of one licentious soldier, She lashes out drwingte wrath of tother English soldiers, and William helps her to escape. Incensed by this attack on "peaceful" troops, the English captain uses Murron as bait in a trap to caputre William. When William returns the villagers rise up with him against the soldiers. A hero is born, and Scotland is thrown...