Word: angers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...raising their total to 31?more than double their 1960 low of 14 statehouses. The G.O.P. now had control of six of the nation's most populous states (California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania), if only for a while. Governors, after all, are notoriously vulnerable to voter anger, as many of this year's races demonstrated...
Anglo-Saxon Approach. The expressions of new-found loyalty for Thieu were a measure of South Vietnamese anger over the arrangements in Paris. The sticking point is the participation of the National Liberation Front, which is the political arm of the Viet Cong. As Saigon sees it, the participation of the N.L.F. as an equal member in any peace talks is tantamount to recognizing that the Communists represent a portion of the population of South Viet Nam. Such an admission would be a serious loss of face for Thieu's regime and might force the Saigon government into...
...special form of sportsworld hysteria. There are tales about golfers attacked by rams on the course, golfers breaking their legs after mighty swings, distance records for balls rebounding off caddies' heads, and the inevitable stories about the golfer's rage. Some golfers knock themselves out in their anger at a missed shot. Some punish their clubs, threatening to drown them or actually torturing them. Some, like the famed Lefty Stackhouse, spend their fury on the nearest object...
...Mitchell stuck with the party through the hysteria of the McCarthy years. "Sometimes it was a little hard finding a job," she said, half in jest, half in anger, "and the FBI followed us around all the time. We couldn't do party work in the open." She had to testify before the House Un-American Affairs Committee, and many of her close friends went to jail...
Splits Within Splits. In the free world, Communist anger at Moscow is greatest in Western Europe, where Communist parties are strongest. Since these parties seek to gain power by votes, and not by revolution, a liberalizing Czechoslovakia was an excellent advertisement for the image of Communism that they wished to project. Now that the Soviets have shattered that benign image, these parties are understandably anxious to dissociate themselves from this aspect of Moscow's policy. Italian Communist Chief Luigi Longo. whose party is Europe's largest, flatly declared that the Communist movement no longer has "centralized direction...