Word: anger
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Since 1927, when TIME first began selecting a Man of the Year, readers have reacted to the choice with approval, surprise, bemusement and in some cases, even anger. Although the title is always conferred on the person or group of individuals who, for better or worse, has dominated the year's news, Adolf Hitler (1938), Joseph Stalin (1939, 1942) and the Ayatullah Khomeini (1979) drew a legion of indignant letters...
...faced with anger, Shultz disclosed at a public congressional hearing that U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon John Kelly had bypassed the Secretary of State to conduct negotiations for the release of American hostages with, in Kelly's words, "arms to Iran as an inducement." Kelly had reported his results only to the White House, through a CIA "privacy" channel. Sources close to Kelly reveal that McFarlane, in a briefing in Washington, explicitly instructed the ambassador not to discuss the arms-hostages talks with the State Department. McFarlane in public testimony denied giving Kelly any instructions...
...more to live than he could afford?" But the answer such characters come up with is invariably no. In Here Is Einbaum, the hero, a Jewish refugee from Austria, has good reason to feel depressed but somehow cannot: "People amazed him. What would they think of next? His anger at human folly was not equal to the pleasure observing it gave...
Booker Cole belongs to the black community's newest lost generation, the shadow that America crosses the street to avoid and finds uncomfortable to discuss. It evokes a sense of fear laced with guilt, anger tinged with racism. For many of these youths, fathering children out of wedlock and committing crimes are rites of passage. Richard Wright drew a complex portrait of such disaffected young black men in the character of Bigger Thomas, the antihero of his controversial 1940 protest novel Native Son. Today there is a new generation of Bigger Thomases in the U.S., thousands of Native Sons...
...Boston to Buenos Aires can already hear carols resounding through stores. Some salesclerks, however, may find the ceaseless piped-in tunes too much of a good thing. In Linz, Austria, suffering department-store workers have sought their union's help. "It's a clear case of psychoterror," said Eduard Anger, president of the Union of Employees in Private Industry. Relentless repetition of standards like Jingle Bells can cause headaches and leave listeners dizzy, Anger says. He is asking stores to cut some of the caroling, raising clerks' hopes for more silence and less Silent Night...