Word: angers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...getting angry. It was a cold and considered anger directed against the high price tags on U.S. store shelves. By last week most U.S. citizens were wrathfully hunting a scapegoat...
Singlehanded, Leo Ernest Durocher has probably set sport's code of fair play back a hundred years. His fits of anger rise and blow away like gusty March winds over Greenpoint. He uses these gusts to advantage. Durocher's credo is: "You've got to win in this game, and how you do it isn't too important...
Thanks to the high production, in general, the Department of Commerce estimated that 1947's first quarter net profits for U.S. industry were at the rate of $15 billion, 25% over 1946. Even the cautious New York Times was moved to anger by the gouging it considered that it was taking. In a special dispatch from Quebec, the Times talked about the "enormous profits" Canadian paper companies were making, showed that net profits of New York's International Paper Co. had risen 270% since 1943, that profits of another company had risen 500%. But the price of newsprint...
...with swarms of vicious rats. The diet consisted of rice sweepings, a tough, rubbery green vegetable and tea. For latrines there were two tin buckets. Filth and vitamin deficiency brought on dysentery, influenza, beriberi and several other diseases, mostly untreated. When the guards weren't slapping faces in anger, they were patting bottoms lewdly. Yet some of those same guards would unexpectedly share their food with the children, permit wives to see husbands in defiance of rules, even assist in smuggling provisions and medicines from friendly Asiatics on the mainland. But the kindnesses were whimsical, starvation and brutality...
Ordeal of Anger. Janet Lewis' setting is Denmark in the middle 17th Century and her writing, as clean as a peeled twig, traces a clear outline of a dark Scandinavian story. The fearless Pastor of Vejlby, Soren Qvist, prayed God to relieve him of the passion of anger. But when the insolent Morten Bruus asked for his only daughter in marriage, Soren hurled him to the ground. The title of the novel refers not only to the actual trial of the Pastor for murder, with which he was eventually charged, but to the spiritual ordeal that preceded...