Word: angers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week Mister Crump was up to his bushy eyebrows in a slugging match. A smart Democrat threatened to break the grip Ed Crump has held on Tennessee's U.S. Senators for the last 15 years.* The man who dared the Boss's revivalist anger and self-righteous vituperation was big (6 ft. 3 in.) Yale-trained Estes Kefauver of Chattanooga, a hard-working Congressman with a prolabor, New Dealish record. "Red Pet Coon." Able, 44-year-old Estes Kefauver jumped into the senatorial primary fight last winter when Mister Crump gave the boot to servile Senator...
...incessant roar of the planes-that typical and terrible 20th Century sound, a voice of cold mechanized anger-filled every ear in the city. It reverberated in the bizarre stone ears of the hollow, broken houses; it throbbed in the weary ears of Berlin's people who were bitter, afraid, but far from broken; it echoed in the intently listening ear of history. The sound meant one thing: the West was standing its ground and fighting back...
...spark had been the matter of eleven dockers and a cargo of zinc oxide. The eleven had refused to finish loading the cargo last month without more pay. They said, with more anger than truth, that the zinc oxide turned them blue. Penalties for the stoppage (including loss of seven days' pay) were clapped on them. The eleven-and many another docker-thought the penalties grossly unfair. Communists eagerly sniffed their opportunity...
What does college do for you? There are all kinds of partial answers-spoken sometimes in jest, sometimes in anger and once in a while in pride. But there have been no actuarial facts to give a statistician's picture of what the nation's 4,966,000 college graduates are like...
Whose Advice? When Labor Lord Addison offered a weak compromise, Lord Salisbury rejected it in anger: "Unworthy of consideration . . . the government has tried to blackmail this House." They voted - 177-to-81 against the bill...