Word: anger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were still barred) said that people were shocked and sullen, aghast at the death toll and destruction of most of their social facilities and schools. "They may not challenge white authority openly again for some time," said a black businessman, "but they will never forget what has happened. Their anger is now deep and permanent. Unless the whites change their policy, there is bound to be another explosion-and another and another...
...regular punishment. To Washington's chagrin, one of the few southern units in his Army, a company of Virginia riflemen, rebelled against discipline and had to be surrounded and disarmed. "Such a dirty, mercenary spirit pervades the whole," the exasperated general wrote in a rare display of open anger, "that I should not be at all surprised at any disaster that may happen." As for the much vaunted New England troops, Washington confided to a friend, "I daresay the men would fight very well (if properly officered), although they are an exceedingly dirty and nasty people...
...danger, the doctor had another reading: "There is no question that he overdosed, but to say whether it was accidental or purposeful at this time would be pure speculation." Associates both in Ohio and on Capitol Hill said that Hays had been despondent. His wife's cold anger over his hanky-panky particularly shook him. He talked about committing suicide if his legal and political troubles worsened...
...Francisco Sun-Reporter (circ. 9,600) has been published for 29 years by Carl ton Goodlett, 61, a physician who won the $4,000 downpayment for the weekly in a poker game. Since then it has ranked as one black paper whose righteous anger never falters. The president of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, Goodlett describes himself as "an irritant. A pain. But to those who will listen, I'm a catalytic agent for change, a positive force for the reduction of political violence and economic racism in America." His position of not-so-chic radical makes...
Letting Go. Next comes a three-hour process, or exercise, about troubling "items" in our lives, such as anger and loneliness. Everyone lies on the floor, eyes closed. Ron tells the crowd to concentrate on different parts of the body, shouts "Let go, let it all out!" For the first time, some of the men lose control, including the dapper Mr. Cool, now convulsed and flailing his limbs. The crescendo comes when Ron directs attention to our diaphragms. Deafening whoops of pain, and some of pleasure. "We became a goddam mob," one disillusioned estie says afterward...