Word: anger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beverly Geltzer of Baldwin, N.Y., was not unduly upset when her son Jordan, 12, broke his arm during a gym class last week. But her coolness turned to anger when she took her son to a nearby hospital. There she learned that neither her own physician nor any other orthopedic surgeon was available to set the arm, and Jordan would have to be treated at Nassau County Medical Center, where he was to wait six uncomfortable hours before his injury could be handled in the busy emergency room. "It's unbelievable," said Mrs. Geltzer. "I feel like...
...subject of encroaching bureaucratic control used to make people's eyes glaze over," says Cannon. "I don't think so any longer." Cannon wandered through some Midwestern cities with his ears open. He was astonished at how many people vented their anger and concern about federal intervention. A bank in St. Louis lost thousands of dollars in business just because a Government agent came around to check on whether or not the place was hiring enough women. The simple presence of the Government gumshoe made a number of customers wonder if something else was wrong with the bank...
...assault. For instance, an emergency-room doctor may start a ruckus merely by coming at a patient with a hypodermic filled with a sedative, which the patient may perceive as an attack. Or an analyst can probe too insistently into a patient's emotional troubles, sparking uncontrollable anger...
...papers hinted at "a befuddled mind," and Bryan's political career was ended. Elliot Richardson, now Ambassador to Britain, is the rare example of a successful American dissenter. But if his public resignation as Attorney General in 1973 had not been accompanied by great publicity and public anger at the President-Richardson too would probably now be a political has-been...
Bolivia's moves showed just how high official anger is running against U.S. multinational firms, chiefly oil companies, for their widening payoffs. In South Korea, U.S. and Japanese firms reportedly budget 5% or 10% of operating funds to pay off avaricious local politicians and political parties...