Word: angers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...compelling message. When Marta, a willowy junior who sports a nose ring, was caught smoking pot on the street last spring, her mother arrived at the police station in a fury. "She just kept slapping me in the face, left and right," the 17-year-old remembers. But the anger only went so far. "My mom and I didn't tell my dad," Marta says. "He would have gone ballistic, and I would never get my car." Marta figures her mother thinks getting busted has scared her straight, but it has not. And she still expects her promised...
...went to work for the Russians just as the CIA was in an uproar over Ames, the most important mole ever discovered within the agency. On the basis of information Ames provided over almost nine years of betrayal, Moscow executed at least 10 Soviets working secretly for American intelligence. Anger and embarrassment led the agency to swear it would never happen again. Two months after Ames was sentenced to life in prison, Nicholson was allegedly getting $12,000 from the Russians...
...series of lurid revelations. They include tales of an exceptionally repellent child-sex torture-murder ring, the arrest of a former minister for the Mafia-style political assassination of a rival, official corruption and bribery, all topped off by law-enforcement bungling on a grand scale. Public anger and disgust are so high that when citizens' groups last month organized a demonstration to demand a government clean-up, silent, white-clad protesters numbering 300,000--fully 3% of the country's population--thronged the streets of Brussels...
...many observers, Simpson's first day on the stand was notable as much for what did not occur as for what did: Simpson's famous hair-trigger anger never flared. "He hasn't exploded, and they [the other side] want him to," says lawyer Leo Terrell, who had lunch with Simpson, his father-and-son lawyer team Robert and Phil Baker, and family members on Friday during the break from testimony. "One family member overheard the plaintiffs saying, 'We've got to get him angry.' The one thing he's doing is keeping his cool." Of course, the former actor...
Under a court order, Lowell limits Asian-American student representation to 40 percent of the school. As a result, Quach says, an atmosphere of anger, resentment and racial tension surrounds Lowell's admissions process...