Word: angers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mario Scelba is slow to anger and never reaches heights of flaming oratory. He is the kind of man who writes out all his political pronouncements, follows his script closely and cannot be heckled into indiscretions. Last week, aware of his troubles, modest Mario Scelba, in a speech to 71 delegates of the Demo-Christian National Council, came as close as he ever does to boasting: "We have solved the Trieste problem and approved the Paris accords. We have laid the foundation for closer collaboration with Yugoslavia and have ended the sad chapter of struggle with Great Britain. With...
...readers must stifle their anger...
...seriously from the vices of professional indignation, special pleading and general rostrumism. Sometimes it seems to raise false eyebrows and to grit false teeth. The resolution of the plot is so facile as to appear insincere. But the picture also has the virtues of its vices: social conscience, honest anger and a narrow but vital kindliness...
Clint Anderson choked back his anger, looked down at the table in front of him, and passed the buck. "I think Senator Pastore will put this his way." Rhode Island's Democratic Senator John Pastore, caught unawares, mumbled: "I think this is now assuming rather ridiculous proportions." Replied Strauss crisply: "I couldn't agree with you more, sir." A few minutes later, Pastore stalked out of the hearing room, muttering "Most unfortunate...
Author Duff maintains an insistent pitch of anger that makes the book as uncomfortable as it is meant to be, although the anger at times sounds almost old-fashioned in an age when the gallows take far fewer lives than more modern means of destruction. Author Duff will convince all but the most sadistic reader that the gallows are brutal, and that even the basest criminals are too good for hanging. But all he may accomplish is that reformers will propose some more efficient or humanitarian substitutes for the gallows-such as the neat old guillotine, the quick bullet...