Word: angers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a man has butterflies in his stomach, how fast are their wingbeats? Does anger or anxiety have a greater effect on stomach contractions? Medical researchers trying to answer these questions have been hampered by difficulty in observing what goes on inside the gut. Last week a team of U.C.L.A. psychologists studying automatic nervous reactions announced a compact solution to the problem: a plastic-coated magnet no bigger than a small medicine capsule...
...were personal triumphs for the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles. As he winged home to Washington, his performance was acclaimed by European diplomats who hitherto have been able to contain their admiration for the Secretary. He had set an unfailingly conciliatory tone, in contrast to the original hot anger of the French and British, and, tirelessly revising his international-control plan to meet the reservations of the new Asian nations. built up the wide backing that would make it harder for Nasser to refuse the heart of his proposal-to insulate the Suez Canal from any nation...
After two minor attacks on Israelis in the Negev desert, two parties of Israelis carried out separate ambushes inside the Gaza Strip in which nine Egyptian soldiers were killed. Usually this kind of outbreak rouses the anger of Egypt's Dictator Nasser and the fury of the Cairo press. Both were too busy with the Suez last week, and played down the incident. But Dag Hammarskjold was not looking the other way. He told Israel: "What I said in my [earlier] statement applies with equal strength to these new incidents...
Whether or not Adenauer is entitled to his anger, the fact is that he considers that he had laid his reputation and his political life on the line for Dulles and the U.S. Adenauer's U.S.-inspired foreign policy has failed to bring German reunification any closer. With only a year to go until West Germany's next general election, German voters had been presented with what seemed to them clear evidence that Konrad Adenauer's credit in Washington was decreasing. ("Adenauer," predicted the pro-Socialist Frankfurter Rundschau, "will be overrun by history, just like Syngman Rhee...
...never lets it go into circulation without warning the borrower of its deleterious effects, but she is disturbed when the city council tells her to put it in the ashcan. "What," wonders Bette, "would Thomas Jefferson say to a request like this?" She refuses, and more in sorrow than anger the city council fires...