Word: angers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much fear that in confusion and in shame of my inefficiency I have been tempted to invent them. In practice, a great deal depends upon the individual tutor's strength or weakness, permanent or periodical; and much more depends on the pupil's capacity to excite the tutor's anger, interest or fear according to the nature of the essay of the following discussion. Only two rules can be stated with certainty...
...spoke to him. "Arise, Jonah," cried He, "and go to Nineveh. Cry out against that great city for its sins." Jonah answered fiercely: "You . . . What are you God of ? Were you God of Israel when a Tyrian stole my love? Was I your prophet then?" In anger, he took ship for Tarshish, thinking by this to make God lose...
...east, after the vessel, God's anger climbed in the likeness of a black cone. The air thinned, darkened, the sea cowered beside the ship; Jonah slept. Suddenly, the sail split from top to bottom and one mariner, huddled with the rest, called on the name of his god in a voice shrill and little like a bat's; next instant, with a great clap, the sky fell into...
...anger of a part of the white population and the heated indignation of the Negroes meant nothing to the Anglo-Dutch Minister of Justice, one Tielman Roos. Interviewed by a correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, he stated his position "with appalling clarity": "Impartial justice does not mean, .that a judge or a magistrate would necessarily give precisely the same sentence to a white man as to a native in a given crime. A very brief sentence of imprisonment to a white man means a great deal more to him than a very much longer term of detention to a native...
...have calculated the effect of their proposal. Do they not realize that a populace, deprived of its last amusement, becomes sullen and revolutionary? Do they not remember that the Roman emperors fell when they grew stingy with the circus? Let them consult their own memories and recall the blind anger which surged up in them when a tryant father kept them from the elephants and lions...