Word: anger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many now fear that the fuse of Protestant anger could be set alight by the Orangemen's peaceful but boisterously partisan rites. So it is that Irish eyes are anxiously turned to the climax of the year's 1,800 marches this coming Saturday. As many as half a million Protestants will take to the streets across the province in memory of Protestant William of Orange's victory over James II, England's last Roman Catholic King, at the Battle of the Boyne, 296 years...
...vast majority of cases, the white citizens have never set foot in the world of the blacks. They have never been in a township, know nothing about the miserable conditions endured by people compelled to live in those areas. But most of all, they know nothing of the seething anger that has built up over the years, so clearly demonstrated at (black) funerals...
...special runoff came five weeks after Waldheim narrowly failed to win a majority of the popular vote against Steyrer and two other candidates. In the final weeks of the campaign, Austrian anger about the international storm over Waldheim's murky military past created a wave of sympathy for him that played a critical role in his victory. Waldheim had long claimed that he had been discharged from the Wehrmacht after being wounded on the Eastern Front in 1941. In March the New York City-based World Jewish Congress disclosed that Waldheim had served in the Balkans from...
...Urban hoped to undermine the credibility of the Reagan Administration, his plan backfired. Many Poles, who commonly refer to the President as "Uncle Reagan," directed their anger at the Jaruzelski regime. Solidarity Founder Lech Walesa told reporters that Urban's statements contradicted the Polish regime's previous accounts of the martial-law decision. At the time, Jaruzelski had claimed that military rule was a last-minute response to Solidarity provocation. But by admitting that plans for a crackdown were formulated as early as November, Walesa charged last week, Urban lent credence to the "Solidarity conviction that (martial law) was premeditated...
...independent intellectuals of the 1950s and early '60s. Their approach was off-center, cool in every sense. In Andy Warhol's first shows, in 1962, he exhibited enormous paintings of Coke bottles and Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. The subject was pop, but determinedly devoid of high-culture anger. Roy Lichtenstein's jumbo cartoon-panel paintings, complete with mawkish dialogue fragments and ersatz Benday dots, were jollier expressions of the same idea...