Word: angers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...March 17 Saint Patrick turns "the stone warm side up" to make the soft, drying west wind blow over Ireland. Two days before the Saint's day, a thaw came, but with it a ten-hour fall of rain and sleet. Ireland's rivers boiled in swollen anger, flooding the lush valleys in Meath, Carlow, Athlone, Cork and Wexford. In Kilkenny town the floods were the worst in living memory...
...earth stand in array, how its rulers make common cause, against the Lord. . . . Princes, take warning; learn your lesson, you that rule the world. Tremble, and serve the Lord, rejoicing in His presence, but with awe in your hearts; kiss the rod, do not brave the Lord's anger, and go astray from the sure path. When the fire of His vengeance blazes out suddenly, happy are they who find their refuge...
Next day tempers flared again. Winston Churchill took a lacing when he interrupted a backbencher. Said the Speaker: "You cannot gate-crash." Churchill, white with anger, protested that gate-crashing was a nasty word and its application to him was "wholly unwarranted." The Speaker said he was "very sorry...
...newspaperman who was incredulous about all this was Scripps-Howard's Robert C. Ruark. Last week Ruark was in Havana, and when he saw the swarthy face of Luciano he headed for the wire office with anger in his heart...
Frustration and anger swelled through the Piazza dell' Esedra. Well-dressed Federation representatives explained that they sought only to defend the workers' interests, but the indignant workers shouted back: "We can take care of ourselves. If I want to break my own arm, it's my own right. Keep your protection...