Word: anger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This exploit made his place in the Arab world secure. Feared and respected in Arabia even more than Lawrence was, Glubb Bey is now the rock under Britain's shaky Arab household. His quiet demeanor hides fighting anger which makes him deadly when aroused. Of all his colorful Arab nicknames Glubb prefers Rai el Boueidah (Guardian of the Little White Camel), which he earned for saving the life of a young camel during a skirmish...
...beneficent. Other Washington newsmen were conscious of his fallibility. But the White House gang who saw him oftenest usually stood up for him, until last week when they were madder than they had been since the days of the Hoover Administration. No one thing had made them sore. Their anger had built up for some time...
...sensible, hardworking, sometimes overserious staff, no New Deal crackpots. Secretary Stimson assigns them jobs, turns them loose to let them work in their own way, backs them up in emergencies, and holds them fully accountable for results. All his aides stand in considerable awe of him. For his anger is withering although as cold as his logic...
...Greatly Surprised." Muley Doughton hit the ceiling. Red-faced and bitter, he called his committee together for a showdown. "This is a terrible hurt," said old Bob Doughton. "This is one of the hardest blows I have ever had." Then, his mountaineer anger getting the better of him, he told the committee flatly that he didn't intend to stand...
...Army had to act. From Washington it announced that Ben Lear had been ordered to make an explanation. Until it arrived, the Army would say nothing. Under the circumstances there was not much to say. Ben Lear might well have been oversevere: his sentence had the stigma of capricious anger, wounded vanity. But his objective-better discipline-was good. Many an officer thought it better to forget the whole business than make a nationwide song & dance about...