Word: anger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House operator apologized, for disturbing Mr. Roosevelt, but Secretary Knox was on the wire, insisting. When the President was told by his Secretary of the Navy that bombs were raining down upon Pearl Harbor, his instant reflex action was a cry of "No!" Later in a sudden spurt of anger he told Buzz that what the Japanese had just done was neither "decent nor Christian...
...seven months the people lived in the woods. They ate berries and huddled against the trees for shelter. Hundreds died of starvation. Thousands of others lived, bags of skin and bones and anger...
...oldest brother, Edward, as tutor, he had a good time. No flaccid sissy, he hunted, golfed, flew, drove his cars faster than the English law or the winding English roads allowed. Sometimes he drank doubles. He knew how to use four-letter words, and how to use anger to dispel opposition. He enjoyed women and slick music, danced well, blithely played the piano and sang his own lusty versions of the season's tunes...
Burly Barbara Lucy Taylor, Long Island's buster of police booths, was given 90 days in jail and a suspended one-year sentence for busting two more in Nassau County in anger after police gave her traffic tickets. The 28-year-old cop-hater served 25 days in jail last year for busting...
...three day goings-on in Room 318 of the Senate Office Building sounded like a radio script. There was even a flurry of anger and a flash of fists when the government's Robert M. Hunter remarked on the last weary day that of six Standard witnesses he would take the word of only one. Standard's vice president Robert T. Haslam (one of the doubted) personally objected, offered to meet Mr. Hunter "outside...