Word: anger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...According to other diplomats present, it is learned privately here, Dr. Hayes flushed with anger at General Franco's manner as well as at what he said and momentarily considered walking out from the party. This would have produced an international incident. Other diplomats, including [Britain's] Sir Samuel Hoare, were reported to have gathered around Dr. Hayes until he regained his composure...
City Editor Lane calls Oxie his dream man. His staff looks on Lane as a dream city editor, who came up the hard way. Unhurried, taciturn (but capable of awesome anger), he often takes on police rewrites between detailing assignments, bats out an Oxie between editions. Some of the staff's oldsters remark that since he quit drinking and became an active churchman Clem Lane has taken on a somewhat pontifical mien. The opposite is apparent in "Oxie O'Rourke...
...A.A.F. Arnold pays tribute, saves his best for the men who fly and fight the planes. "Charts, graphs, strategy would mean nothing without the devotion, anger and bitter pride of our men. ... It is they who are fighting this...
...Sleeping Fire. Though the air of tradition is heavy in the tiny old courtroom where Sir Lyman presided, he kept the proceedings informal, ruled with courtesy and brilliance. But he could be tough. Once during the last sitting when he raised his voice, so unexpected was his anger a lawyer fled the courtroom...
...people call "a good pair of hands" -large, capable, well-coordinated. He talks with few gestures, but his speech is superb in exactness, his voice even but never monotonous. When he dresses a man down, there is no profanity, no shouting, not even the chill look of traditional military anger. But his ire burns like hell. These personal explosions of his are rarely and consciously utilized tools: he can turn them on & off like a spigot...