Word: angers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dewey's speeches were not electrifying. "As never before," the candidate solemnly declared, "we need a rudder to our ship of state and we need a firm hand at the tiller." When he referred to his opponent he spoke more in sorrow than in anger, never mentioning his name. "We know the kind of government we have now. It's tired. It's confused. It scolds and complains . . . It's coming apart at the seams...
...just didn't see them-a sense a feeling of their constant presence and nearness: black men and women and children breathing and waiting inside their barred and shuttered homes, not crouching cringing shrinking, not in anger and not quite in fear: just waiting, biding since theirs was an armament which the white mati could not match nor-if he but knew it-even cope with: patience . . . this land was a desert and a witness . . . of the deliberate turning as with one back of the whole dark people on which the very economy of the land itself was founded...
...Earl Warren spoke more in sorrow than in anger. He took off for the East, still concentrating on being the candidate who is mad at nobody...
...carried in one barge on the Rhine. It is painful to watch German workmen pour the small lumps into scales and weigh them out to the precise 110 pounds. To an American watching the airlift there is a sense of both degradation and satisfaction. But however momentary your anger at this unnatural and uneconomic thing, you get an abiding satisfaction that we are able...
Railroad men yelped in pain as well as anger. What stung them most were murmurs by Government men that railroaders had infiltrated the Army & Navy transportation services and had been able to bill the Government to benefit their companies. Snapped New York Central's President Gustav Metzman: "The Government was not in any instance charged a higher rate than commercial shippers . . . I would like to testify to the conscientious service rendered by our railroad...