Word: angers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jackson, Miss. House Speaker Sam Rayburn, a Texas Democrat who had spent years trying to make the Democratic tent big enough for both North and South, refused to discuss segregation ("I don't think it would be helpful to talk about it"), attempted to turn the anger of 800 fund-raising Democrats against Republicans. The Mississippians refused to be distracted, gave their biggest applause to the cry of State Chairman Bidwell Adams: "I want to tell the honorable Speaker and everyone else that I am not a milk-chocolate Democrat. I am an old-line Democrat...
Look Back in Anger brings Detroit the work of Britain's Angry Young Man, Playwright John Osborne...
...Saturday morning papers, Vice President Nixon read with anger wire-service and New York Times reports that the State Department's mail was running 80% against the Administration's stand on Quemoy and Matsu. Checking with top officers at State, Nixon became convinced that the stories were based on a calculated leak. Nixon quickly spoke...
...other to spiritual pride, self-righteousness, persecuting zeal ... If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst." Finally, says Lewis, the violently angry passages of the psalms evoke God's implacable anger toward sin (if not toward the sinner); the "relentlessness of the Psalmists" is at least preferable to moral indifference masquerading as charity...
Quarrel with Overtones. These odd encounters were the opening skirmishes in a conflict with deadly serious overtones. Iceland is a NATO member, and the U.S. airbase at Keflavik is a keystone in NATO defense. Yet in their anger at Britain, Icelanders, spurred on by Minister of Fisheries Ludvik Josepsson, a Communist, were muttering about withdrawing from NATO and closing down the U.S. airfield...