Word: anger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supposed Palestine's violence would be ended by such mortal arithmetic. Yesterday's hopes and anger were forgotten in today's new fears. Forgotten was the United Nations' inquiry commission. And forgotten, for the moment, were the 4,500 Jews defiantly refusing to leave their ship, Exodus, 1947, in France's sweltering Port-de-Bouc...
Jimmy Murphy, 25, had just knocked Napoleon across the kitchen with a baseball bat. Jimmy, a single-minded lush, had a frightful temper. Sometimes, according to Author Natalie Anderson Scott, he was capable of "smiling humorously," but more often anger "twisted his handsome face" and corrupted his "sweet, childish mouth." He swindled, stole, played fast & loose with girls-among them an artist named Kay, and Dolores, who wore sables and "went around adjusting herself" (Dolores could "adjust herself in a thrice"). Jimmy peddled dope, knifed his sister, beat up his mother, hocked the family goods. But his mother loved...
...arrival of Government troops stirred anger and alarm in hunchbacked, round-faced Chen Wei-fu. He is one of Paiyen's few intellectuals-a primary schoolteacher who had wholeheartedly joined the Communists and become a magistrate. A report had reached Chen's ears, once, that an old woman carrying water through the fields had met some thirsty Government scouts. They drank from her earthen jars and went off. Wrathful Chen had summoned the old woman. "Why did you cooperate with Chiang's troops?" he shouted. "Why did you give them water to drink?" Then crying, "We must...
Louis Philippe's anger was a big part of the reason why France's railworkers were on strike last week. There was no doubt that the Communists, carefully trying to dislodge Premier Paul Ramadier's Redless Government, were abetting the strike. But not only Communists supported the workers. Many leaders within Ramadier's own Socialist Party were for them, as was a large section of France's Catholic labor organizations...
...British public, the Manchester Guardian's Russophile Correspondent Alexander Werth reported the Lemin lecture with warm overtones of "You see-they may still get to like us." Any criticisms of the Empire the professor may have made were offered "more in sorrow than in anger," explained Werth. "Without explicitly saying that the British Empire was a good thing, Dr. Lemin suggested [that] it was a complicated political organism which was evolving in the right direction...