Word: anger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wounded were brave and angry men, and it filled the passengers with bravery and anger to talk to them. In one cabin a sailor, whose right leg had been amputated at the knee, gazed across the room at another lad, with his left leg gone, lying morose and silent, too unhappy even to speak. The sailor wrote a note, with the grim humor of the valiant: "How about a dance?" The lad grinned, began to talk...
...Forecast in the weekly Brighton (Mass.) Citizen: "For Japan and vicinity - Heavy showers of bombs with scattered clouds of planes, probably followed by parachutes; a rapidly growing cold anger starting in the U.S. coastal regions and spreading throughout the U.S. is moving towards the west with increasing speed...
Thus the U.S. met the first days of war. It met them with incredulity and outrage, with a quick, harsh, nationwide outburst that swelled like the catalogue of some profane Whitman. It met them with a deepening sense of gravity and a slow, mounting anger. But there were still no words to express emotions pent up in silent people listening to radios, reading papers, taking trains. But the U.S. knew that its first words were not enough...
...John L. Lewis hung smokily over defense production (see p.20). A revolt was on: part of it led by men who were not opposed to intervention, but were opposed to moving against enemies abroad without first cracking down on defense strikes at home. They were bolting out of anger at John L. Lewis, and the Administration's pat-a-cake labor policy. Some of these could be wheedled or hammered into line, some could be bought with a promise of a crackdown on Lewis. But the biggest opposition came from men who on each measure had searched their minds...
They are not on the defensive; they are determined to reconstruct. There is a mountain of anger throughout the country against the ideas and the men who brought the country to September...