Word: angers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the optimistic progress of peace talks in Washington this summer, fueled by the election of the supposed dove Ehud Barak, resentment, jealously and downright anger towards one's neighbors continues. These hard feelings are only exacerbated and fueled by the frustrations of performing daily tasks such as washing clothing and mopping floors with limited water...
...Such anger over a few words that don't sound like much to get excited about. They even reflect reality. Nevertheless, the impact is certain to be profound. In any other part of the world, the new phrasing could be swept aside as a niggling shift in semantics. But for two belligerents, each bent on prevailing, and for a U.S. government caught in the middle, Lee's words had the potential of sparking a diplomatic crisis--or worse. Nor is it now merely an academic exercise for Americans to ask, Would we go to war for Taiwan...
That's hokum, of course--the bit of flimflam at the core of her listening tour. Hillary knew more about health care and education than most of the panelists she was listening to last week. She displayed an extraordinary command of policy detail, a steely anger on behalf of those getting screwed by the health and education systems, a fine ear for the telling local anecdote (such as the Ithaca car-crash victim denied insurance coverage after she failed to get preapproval for her emergency helicopter evacuation because she was unconscious at the time). But she was the Woman...
...extraordinary event in that it came on top of a lot of huge frustrations in China," he said. "I think the government response in China is quite restrained considering the anger of the people...
...think what happened was with the bombing of the embassy there was a lot of genuine anger all over China," Vogel said, adding that Chinese officials were probably wary of introducing any kind of cultural exchange into such a volatile environment...