Word: anger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Correspondents, at last inside Germany, were flabbergasted by the kaleidoscope of contrasts: war and peace, hunger and plenty, anger and kindness, ruin and feudal pomp, a fantastic blend of the modern and medieval. Wherever the tide of war engulfed it, the German state was disintegrating into chaos. Elsewhere, it was incredibly stable...
...General de Gaulle did not want the Big Three to think that he would insist on wrecking Dumbarton Oaks if nothing better were offered. He apparently realized that he had gone too far in some of his recent displays of anger and defiance, took this opportunity to make graceful amends. Said a temperate, challenging statement which le Grand Charlie personally edited...
...author is a certain shady newsboy named White," snarled Pravda when a condensation of this book appeared in the December 1944 Reader's Digest. "The book itself ... is the usual stew from the Fascist kitchen, with all its smells, calumnies, ignorance, and hidden anger." U.S. Reds were equally outraged by what balding, square-jawed Bill White, son of the late, great William Allen White, had to report of his six-week trip through Russia with Eric Johnston. And even non-Communist friends of the Soviet sharply criticized him for attempting to measure by U.S. standards a very different...
...negotiations began, he filed formal notice of a labor dispute under the Smith-Connally Act-to which he referred as "that grotesque slave statute." Thus he paved the way for a legal strike vote within 30 days, and in so doing turned the act-passed by Congress in anger at the 1943 coal walkouts-into a weapon...
...himself. Was not Le Grand Charlie being a little too proud and stiff-necked? Said L'Aurore: "We must repeat that we remain a great power, but should we not all the more carefully avoid showing bad humor?" Added Le Front National: "Let us beware of moods of anger that betray weakness more than real strength...