Word: anger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Iacocca became Ford's president in 1970. Eight years later, Chairman Henry Ford II demoted and exiled him. "He'll always be mad at Henry Ford," says Kathi Iacocca, 25, one of his two daughters. "He will take it to his grave. People who don't understand his anger don't know my father." Says a former Iacocca colleague: "He believes in reprisals for his enemies." In the book, Henry Ford is depicted as venal and mean, an almost unbelievably unappealing character. Iacocca asserts that his former boss was paranoid, vulgar, personally extravagant at company expense, cruel and sexist. Many...
Indian intelligence officials said they suspected the involvement of a "professional hit team" from the Middle East. Police questioned known activists among the 15,000 Afghans who live in New Delhi in an attempt to uncover a possible link between the Khitrichenko shooting and Afghan anger over the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi ordered law-enforcement officials to spare no effort in the search for the assassins. Said a spokesman for the Ministry of External Affairs: "We strongly condemn this shocking crime against a representative of a country with which we have the friendliest of relations...
...reported killing 21 guerrillas while losing two of their own men. The situation, in the words of Israel's northern commander, Major General Ori Orr, had reached a state of "all-out war," with an average of 70 Shi'ite attacks a week against the Israeli forces. As Israeli anger grew last week, there were repeated calls from Cabinet ministers for an accelerated withdrawal...
...Christian side, the standoff continued between President Amin Gemayel, who is a Maronite Christian, and the Christian officers who have seized control of the combined militias long dominated by the Gemayel family. From the beginning of the revolt two weeks ago, the rebels' anger is believed to have been directed at Gemayel for transferring his loyalty from Israel to Syria. The rebels insisted last week that they thought Gemayel was too autocratic in presuming to be both leader of the Christian community and President of Lebanon. They proposed the creation of a special council that would serve as a parliament...
Whenever Anne feels moved privately to condemn Caroline's behavior, "an anger rose up in her as if the accusation had come from someone else. No one would have pored through a male artist's letters to his children as she had through Caroline's." Her investigations into the life of a female artist convince Anne of the world's unfairness: "The truth of the matter was that for a woman to have accomplished something, she had to get out of the way of her own body." As she broods on her feelings for her children, Anne increasingly wonders whether...