Word: angers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment can be selected as the turning point that changed a peaceable demonstration into a violent uprising," says the U.N. report, "it would be this moment. The anger of the crowd was intensified when white ambulances, with Red Cross license plates, drove up before the Radio Building. Out piled AVH police, wearing doctors' white coats. A part of the infuriated crowd attacked them and, in this way, the demonstrators acquired their first weapons...
...broke into the Marseillaise, then went on rioting. Sitting in his office in the gleaming white government building, Minister Resident Robert Lacoste read the reports of mob violence, called in the leaders of veterans' groups to urge them to halt rioters in the streets. But for all his anger and bitterness, Lacoste was helpless. Early in the evening, fatigue finally dissipated the mobs...
...rioted were playing the rebels' game." In Paris, Figaro editorialized: "We are left speechless." But the students and veterans who had led the rioting were neither speechless nor ashamed. In a joint statement they proclaimed: "People of Algiers, once again you have displayed in a striking fashion your anger at too many unpunished crimes, and your determination to remain French on French soil...
Tight pennant races and a hot summer combined last week to set big-league tempers on edge. Pitchers reached oftener for the beanball, battered batters responded with expected anger...
...page for most novelists to spread thin over a book, and a style as lean and resourceful as a hungry wildcat. Above all, West was not parochial, did not advocate political or social systems. He was one of those men in whom pity must take the form of anger, but his anger was not anything as simple as anti-American or anti-Babbitt; it was anti-human nature...