Word: angers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newsman asked: "Do you consider that the American Government has lost face in China because of recent developments?" The question was broad enough to touch another sore point: U.S. helplessness over the shabby treatment of Consul General Angus Ward (TIME, Nov. 21 et seq.). Acheson flushed with anger. He replied, with heavy irony, that "face" was a particularly foolish Oriental conception which suddenly seems to have seized the American mind, that you can lose wars, you can lose honor and lose everything else, but to lose face seems to be terrible. It was a particular form of Orientalism of which...
Sloth slept with his eyes wide open in a sticky skein of cobwebs, and Anger was a spiky, comic-book monster which had just smashed a blood-spattered plate-glass window. Lust, the shock of the group-as well as the bottom in bad taste-was a leering, loathsome human figure, festooned with genitalia and en-ries cased in a prophylactic tube...
Errors Made in Anger...
...reacting to danger (real or imagined) may express himself in three ways: anger, anxiety or fear. Anger and fear find outlets in fight and flight, but anxiety is a painful in-between that allows neither fight nor flight. The anxious man suffers poor circulation, especially at the extremities ("cold feet"), his muscles are "all tightened up," his breathing is likely to become fast and shallow...
...last week, the note was still unanswered, and Washington still did not know what to do. Such shilly-shallying in the face of Peiping's provocation stirred the good, grey New York Times to red-hot anger, which was shared by more & more Americans. Wrote the Times: "Able, honest, faithful and diligent public servants have been stranded in Communist China by our Micawber Far Eastern policy . . . We cannot afford, if we want to retain a shred of prestige anywhere in Asia, to let men such as Angus Ward . . . suffer any further contumely as martyrs to our inability to decide...