Word: angers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Caught in his shorts by a Swedish photographer, portly Jazzman Louis Armstrong, his anger largely mock, responded with a Marquess of Queensberry pose most likely to invite a snappy right cross. Later, somewhat more warmly garbed, Satchmo grabbed horn and handkerchief, strutted from his dressing room to wow 3,000 cats in frosty (45° below zero), far-off Umea (pop. 17,000) with a rafter-ringing set of fine old stomping tunes...
...tribal organization. Originally it had been formed by the Bakongo tribe of the south as a sort of protective union against the harder-working and more favored Bangalas. But under the leadership of a slight, timid-looking but steel-willed fanatic named Joseph Kasavubu, 41, it gradually turned its anger upon bigger targets...
...commissioner was frozen, all right -but with pure anger. Barked Tough Cop Kennedy, who brooks no doubt about his responsibility and authority: "If the police are unionized, I advise the people not to waste their money paying the police commissioner a salary. Hoffa would be the police commissioner, so why waste the money?" Said the hard-boiled Daily News: "Public opinion will approve overwhelmingly any steps-repeat any steps-Commissioner Kennedy may take to crush this attempt." At City Hall, Mayor Robert Wagner found his voice, pounded his desk, called Feinstein's announcement "dastardly" and a "disgrace," promised...
...been a Gaullist since he escaped from a World War II Nazi prison camp to join the French Resistance. Mildness is not his style. Under the Fourth Republic, his ferocious attacks on the old parliamentary system both in France's Senate and in his weekly Messenger of Anger won him the nickname of Pèrè Colère-roughly, Old Man Fury...
...Hutchins warned that vets would breed "educational hobo jungles." Sociologist Willard Waller, recalling that World War I Veterans Hitler and Mussolini first recruited veterans, wrote ominously: "Veterans have written many a bloody page of history, and those pages have stood forever as a record of their days of anger...