Word: angers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...romance." In 1989, after years of landlocked child-rearing (four daughters between them), they leave their marriages and decide, like the owl and the pussycat, to set off to sea in the 36-ft. double-ended motor-sailor Lord Jim. Throughout the chronicle blow dark gusts of both families' anger and disapproval--bad emotional weather that is the underlying motif of Chaplin's memoir, even when tropical sun shines on the romantic fugitives...
...before Sisler started, Bruno took him to lunch. He then asked a question that had somehow not occurred to him before: How old are you, anyway? Bruno was floored by the answer. Don't tell anyone, the bank chief warned. Sisler's youth could embarrass co-workers and, worse, anger Bergen's board...
...words of Barton's suicide notes present some tantalizing enigmas. There is anger at the "people who greedily sought my destruction." Was this the world of the day traders? Then there is blame, regret and denial about his family. "I killed Leigh Ann because she was one of the main reasons for my demise ... She really couldn't help it, and I love her so much anyway." She was bludgeoned to death, her body hidden from the children in a closet. Mychelle ("my sweetheart") and Matthew ("my buddy"), he insisted, died "with little pain." He bashed their heads with...
Xiao, 32, had a tough, if typical upbringing in China during the mania of the Cultural Revolution, which lasted from 1966 to 1976. Her father was driven "mentally crazy" after he was denounced at work as disloyal to Mao, and at home he expressed his anger by beating Xiao and her mother...
After the initial disbelief, the hope against hope that the three of them might be spotted on some tiny island waving, the anger at what one could see as his foolhardiness in flying at night into hazy conditions with his wife and her sister aboard, the morbid thought of their last minutes, the aching sadness of it all, the archival film footage of the children romping at the White House and the little boy's salute and all the mawkish elegies on television, it was a comfort finally to watch the U.S.S. Briscoe raise anchor...