Word: anger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adriano Theatre in Rome the Blackshirts roared. First they roared with laughter. Then with anger. Then with exultation...
...whose master constantly prods him awake, crying: "Joe! -Damn that boy, he's gone to sleep again." Dickens did not know it, but Joe was a victim of a rare nervous disorder known as narcolepsy* (from the Greek narke, stupor, and lepsis, seizure). When narcoleptics experience certain emotions -anger, fear, grief, amusement-they crumple up, fall sound asleep. Less than 100 cases have ever been reported...
This is only the beginning of Cash's analysis, but it is the basis for all that follows. With great pity and firmness, he analyzes how bitterly those traits and patterns were intensified under the hell of Reconstruction; in what anger, hope and innocence the great wave of cotton mills rose up; how the mill hands were exploited in the name of patriotism and progress; how these iron plantations perpetuated the ancient pre-War patterns of the soil...
...because war had cut off his stock in trade, Champagne Salesman John Melville turned his idleness to the service of mankind. Brooding over the destructive force of human anger, he got an idea that seemed both neat and therapeutic: people in or on the edge of a destructive tizzy need to break something. The breakable object should be something that makes a satisfying smash, but not be so expensive or useful that the smasher feels remorse. Mr. Melville got a friend of his, Sculptress Frances Ferrer, to design him such an object. Last week Mr. Melville's smashable went...
Since Carol's fall and Premier General Ion Antonescu's ascent to power, the Codreanist Guards have watched the results of German occupation with growing anger. Horia Sima, leader of the moderate Guardists, was looked on as a traitor for accepting the Vice Premiership. Antonescu himself only joined the Guard after his coup, was hooted down as the German cat's-paw who had given Transylvania to the Hungarians. For the extremist Guards did not fancy the Nazis at close quarters. Among other things for which the Germans were blamed was a 300-400% rise in food...