Word: anger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...UNRRA was being sold far above the average Chinese's means. UNRRA Ford trucks were selling at $3,750 (gold). The Chinese people, starving almost within the dreamlike sight of rich rice and yellow wheat, hardly protested: they were too accustomed to inefficiency and graft. Nevertheless, dawning anger at their plight came like thunder out of China last week. Over 200 local UNRRA officials sent a cable to their boss in Washington: "We have come from many places in the world [to make] UNRRA's goal a reality [but] it is our considered judgment that UNRRA supplies...
Canada too was angry. Without a deal, she will have to take her chances at selling her wheat in the years of world surpluses which will come some day. What added heat to her anger was the fact that she had only wanted to do what the free-trading U.S. is doing with Cuba-i.e., buying her sugar crop at a guaranteed price below the world price. And Britain, which was forced to ration bread last week for the first time in her history, was angry because she will have to pay more for her daily bread...
When Stoke heard about it, anger swept through the city of fire and earth. The people liked this squarejawed, plain-speaking American. If he wanted to be one of them, why, no bloke in any bloomin' office up in London had a right to interfere. Three hundred petitions ("We, the undersigned constituents of the Potteries towns . . . record our protest . . .") circulated throughout the Five Towns, bore 10,000 signatures by last week...
There was a shakeup in the Paris police over I'affaire Mufti, and Britain's Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin was sufficiently disturbed by it to order an investigation of his intelligence service. Mr. Bevin was already disturbed by a howl of anger from the U.S. which followed a remark of his at Bournemouth: that the U.S. wanted the 100,000 Jews in Palestine "because they did not want too many of them in New York...
...over Britain, gratitude for Churchill's wartime services had become tinged with impatience. With more sorrow than anger, newspapers began to suggest that it was about time for him to retire. Last week, the News Chronicle advised him to withdraw to his study and write a chronicle of World War II, instead of wasting his eloquence on parliamentary name calling-like "a great poet spending his time writing Christmas cracker mottoes...