Word: angers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some of his novels Waugh has got around his problem by succumbing wholly either to ferocity (as in The Loved One) or heartburn (as in A Handful of Dust). More often, he has kept his anger uppermost and merely hinted at a grumpy sympathy with mankind. But in Brideshead Revisited (TIME, Jan. 7, 1946), he made his first major effort to express fully both sides of his divided self-to give poison only where poison was due, to cool boiling oil with holy water...
...affected manner which horse- sculptors could only envy, looked back over its shoulder at the nurse. Its face, rosy and polished, had no more expression than an apple. Then it crawled straight off the rug. The nurse looked up from her book and gave a shrill cry of anger. Two spots of red appeared in her white cheeks. But she still held the book open before her at reading level; she was hoping, with all her might, that something would save her from breaking off in the middle of this wonderful chapter...
...Louisville, Adlai Stevenson's campaign took on a new tone. In bitter terms, the usually restrained Stevenson expressed his growing anger at the opponent he had once admired...
...about the house. A psychopathic killer who has just polished off his latest victim. Ryan is hired by World War I Widow Ida Lupino to do some odd jobs in her small-town Victorian home. Before long, Ryan, who is given to mental blackouts and odd fits of anger, has locked all the doors from the inside, ripped the phone from the wall and is scaring Widow Lupino half to death with his menacing attitude...
Like a modern Paul Revere, the taxpayers' federation loudly sounded the alarm. Led by Boston's Post, the press took up the shout. Riding the hubbub of popular anger, Congressman Christian Herter, Republican candidate for governor, dashed off a series of open letters to his Democratic rival, Governor Paul Dever: widespread "dismay and disgust" cried Herter, made it imperative for Dever to call a special legislative session to repeal the "sneak" benefits before they went into effect. The Republican case is somewhat hurt by the fact that the state senate which approved the pension bill is controlled...