Word: angers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Campaigning through California, Adlai Stevenson found himself bombarded by hard-hitting questions from Negro leaders. His answers left behind a trail of disillusionment and downright anger. Urging moderation,, he said the Federal Government must go slowly in enforcing desegregation, using education and persuasion rather than force. He came out flatly (as President Eisenhower had) against the proposal by Harlem's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. to deny federal aid to segregated school districts. Would he use the Army and Navy, if necessary, to enforce the Supreme Court decision? "I think that would be a great mistake," said Stevenson...
...chapter of Harry Truman's memoirs that deals with the firing of General Douglas MacArthur during the Korean war, one word instantly caught Douglas MacArthur's eye: "insubordination." MacArthur boiled up in anger. "Now, for the first time," he wrote in an answer to Truman in last week's LIFE, "[Mr. Truman] bases his action on what he terms insubordination, one of the most serious of all military offenses and one which throughout our military annals has never been made without the officer concerned being given a hearing and the opportunity to defend himself...
...overheated typewriter he minted words and phrases that became part of the national currency: "booboisie," "bozart," "Comstockery," "Bible Belt." With roars of laughter, Mencken insulted at least half his countrymen as "morons" and "boobs" led by "medicine men." He enraged a lot of people, and capitalized on their anger by fielding their barbs into an anthology, Schimpflexikon...
...Where are the volcanic thunderers of the press? William Randolph Hearst was damned, but he stirred the masses. Today we have a world crisis, but what American press stirs anything? The New York Times and the Washington Post are churchly papers, but what is their boiling point? No smoking anger ever billows from their pages. We are witnessing in these late years the most ghastly inhumanities; in the face of them our press is without fire and guts-it's ashamed of indignation, ashamed to rabble-rouse...
President Carlos Castillo Armas clashed last week with the politically powerful law students of the National University, who threatened to strike unless the President permitted the return of eight politicos banished to neighboring countries for "plotting." Though they held no brief for the exiles, the students burned with righteous anger against the penalty of deportation, which is in such bad repute that Guatemala's forthcoming constitution specifically forbids it. Castillo Armas talked it over with student leaders, sensibly decided not to create martyrs needlessly, ordered Guatemalan consulates to give the deportees re-entry visas...