Word: angers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indignation. Last week, when Gerhart Eisler was brought to Washington to be questioned by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, he was a changed man. He rose before the committee pale with anger. "I am not a spy," he sputtered. "I am not the boss of all the Reds...
Closeup, Young neither looks nor acts like a fighting man. He is quiet and soft-voiced, shows anger only by a slight tightening of his lips, a slight glint in his pale blue eyes. Only 5 ft. 6 and weighing only 135 Ibs., his body seems fragile. His thin shoulders are stooped. He looks more than his age: at 50, he could easily be taken for 65. His narrow face is florid and wrinkled, with the kind of puffiness that usually spells dissipation. "My dissipation," says Young, who doesn't smoke and only occasionally takes a cocktail...
...Close to Anger. Responsibility for the deadlock he placed squarely on the shoulders of extremists in both factions: "On the side of the National Government . . . there is a dominant group of reactionaries who have been opposed, in my opinion, to almost every effort I have made to influence the formation of a genuine coalition Government...
...another Communist tactic General Marshall came close to open anger: "I wish to state to the American people that in the deliberate misrepresentation and abuse of the action, policies and purposes of our Government, [Communist] propaganda has been without regard for the truth, without any regard whatsoever for the facts, and has given plain evidence of a determined purpose to mislead the Chinese people and the world and to arouse a bitter hatred of Americans...
Since the Seatrain started operating in 1929 the dock workers had watched with anger and frustration as the great crane plucked loaded cars from its hold and set them on the railroad tracks bound for Cuba's warehouses. Their countermove was a demand on Seatrain Lines, Inc. to hire one-third more stevedores and let them load and unload each car at Havana ("for customs inspection"). Result: by last week the Seatrain had stopped running...