Word: anger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Psychoneurosis is the 1943 name for World War I's shell shock. But it goes much further. Psychoneurotics who have never heard a shot fired in anger are now being discharged from the Army (current strength: 5,500,000) at the rate of 1,000 a week. The Army's explanations: 1) lack of emotional elasticity in men who want to be unafraid but are driven to nervous crack-ups by uncontrollable subconscious fear; 2) soldiers' anxiety about their families; 3) their lack of ability to adjust themselves to Army regimentation; 4) inability to stand the physical...
Point & Counterpoint. Madame Chiang rose to answer each question, sat down again when she had given her answer. Question: Is there any truth in reports that China is not using her manpower to the fullest? Madame Chiang showed a touch of anger. China, she said, is using her manpower to the extent that she has munitions. The President had said the need was for more munitions. China has trained pilots, but she has not enough planes or gasoline...
...Gandhi free-and thus permitting him to break his fast -would be an admission that the British were wrong. If the British stuck to their point (and Gandhi died) the result might be an immediate cataclysm. Or it might be the slower, perhaps more disastrous culmination of hate and anger...
Twice last week he turned his full anger on journalistic critics. At one press conference he accused Columnist Walter Lippmann (without using Lippmann's name) of vicious, venomous vituperation. Next day, he gave the New York PM's Correspondent I. F. Stone a bitter, face-to-face calling down...
...this exchange of personalities satisfied the Secretary's anger, it did not satisfy everyone. Editorialized the New York Herald Tribune (which syndicates Lippmann's column...