Word: angers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question I have put to myself is this: How did a story that was originally provoked by anger at the high price of supposedly 'cheap' cuts of meat turn into an anti-pig story? I find that the Little Piggie story changed and warped the facts in such a way that the snobbish and un-working-class attitudes our readers detected crept in and received the main emphasis rather than the high price of pork -once a staple in the diet of millions...
Thousands of rank & file union men were angry at going almost three years without a wage raise (largely because their bosses couldn't agree on a few technical details). They were angry, too, at being called unpatriotic. In their anger, they were willing to be mean. So, suddenly, they decided to go in for the mass lie. The pattern of the phony epidemics changed from day to day. On some railroads the wildcatters began drifting back after a few days, but when they did, more reported sick elsewhere. At St. Louis strikers had "tonsillitis"; at Detroit they guessed, soberly...
...wave of anger in the U.S. at Attlee's statement alarmed and pained Britons. Supporters and opponents alike urged Attlee to do something quickly to soothe America. Three days later, at a Labor Party gathering in the London suburbs, Attlee foreshadowed Britain's new defense campaign...
...anger was loud, general, and without clearly visible purpose. Ugliness made him angry, but esthetes made him laugh. Materialism enraged him, but the spiritual roused him to scorn. He was angry at social injustice, but the idea of reform bored him just as much. The source of his anger seemed to spring from his childhood in Sauk Centre, in which, to his intense disappointment, he could see no Lancelots and no shining castles. Usually mislabeled a realist or a satirist, he was really a disappointed romantic...
...Nadra!" The Moslems of Singapore (Malays, Pakistanis, Indonesians) had followed the case with mounting religious and racial excitement. Cried Schoolmaster Mansur's enraged kinfolk: "This is a fight between European and Asian!" In the mosques the mullahs spoke of an affront to Islam. Last week the Moslem anger erupted in the most vicious rioting in Singapore memory...