Word: anger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon it was much too late. The gust of labor's reaction had grown to a hurricane of anger (see The Presidency). The President, suddenly without any labor friends, stiffened; he would not retreat...
...Congress is working for special interests . . . the National Association of Broadcasters ... big business and Wall Street. . . . The Lea bill was conceived in malice and anger resulting from one of the most expensive and bitter anti-labor propaganda campaigns in the history of our country...
...Oedipus, Laurence Olivier was extremely fine. He was first kingly and high-mettled, of unshakable purpose and swift anger. Then, twisting and turning between confidence and fear, he became both less and larger, a tragic figure of an early world, uttering at the climax two primitive animal howls that no one who heard them will ever forget...
There were more of the same; all were beaten. But still the Senate could not get on with the vote. There was still Bill Langer to reckon with-a man determined never to let his anger be watered by reason. His objection to the draft extension resolution had been ignored. Now he was fixing to filibuster the Senate into repentance...
...after day he had talked on, noting understandingly how the operators' "souls are tortured." He had made no specific demands. They pleaded: what was his proposition? He countered: what did they offer? At last in lofty-anger he withdrew. Contracts expired and miners stopped mining...