Word: anger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate floor, Arthur Vandenberg had anticipated the President's anger. Said the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee: "Nowhere have Communists more openly presented a more cynical illustration of their idea of democracy. . . . Nowhere has this violation of the basic freedoms . . . raised more definite implications of Moscow's influence in these unholy events...
...might turn out to be his most costly. Nicaraguan resistance is becoming more insistent. The resistance is not the formless anger of ragged peasants, but the pocketbook hate of ranchers and businessmen who have seen Somoza muscle into their territory. And after such a bald usurpation of power, Somoza has few friends in the Governments of sister American republics...
...starts writing "poisoned pap" that sells well. He even, like Author Caldwell, writes a novel ("with Sex aplenty") about "international bankers" who "cunningly and sedulously plotted wars for their own profit. This was what the American people wanted ... a scapegoat for their fear. . . . Sound and fury, rage and excess, anger and despair, defeated dreams, filled every page of the novel [and] Frank was sometimes faintly embarrassed by the wealth of adjectives. . . ." This is an embarrassment that Author Caldwell never seems to feel...
Violent and prolonged anger can play havoc with body tissues, said Dr. Harold G. Wolff of Cornell Medical College. A furious man - or even a peevish one who constantly takes umbrage - gets too much blood in his stomach walls; if he stays angry too long, ulcers may result. The fury or sulking fits aroused by threats to a man's life or his love, said Dr. Wolff, sometimes affects his nose: it may swell up and hurt. A "mad" nose, caught with its resistance down, is easy prey to colds and other infections...
...objective," but dealt with the universe in terms of man's own suffering, fearing, loving and hating-much as does present-day psychology.* For contemporary Denmark's official church Christianity, Protestant Kierkegaard had nothing but contempt, though he himself had been trained for the Danish ministry. His anger boiled over in such pronouncements as "Parsons canonize bourgeois mediocrity" and "Official Christianity is both aesthetically and intellectually ludicrous and indecent, a scandal in the Christian sense." On his deathbed in 1855 at the age of 42, Kierkegaard refused all churchly ministrations, saying that "the parsons are royal functionaires...