Word: angers
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...pause came upon the battle. The monks regrouped at a nearby monastery to march downtown. But first came a chilling display of the people's anger - and the monks' moral influence. A man on a motorcycle rode up. Motorcycles have been banned in Rangoon for years, ever since - the story goes - the paranoid generals fear being shot by assassins riding one of them. Most people on motorcycles are therefore assumed to be spies...
Foreigners is written, like all Phillips' books, in a style of even, sorrowful precision that enrages as it informs. Its anger is the stronger for being deployed with such classic restraint. And the stories he chooses to share speak for thousands of other lives that are, and always will be, untold. A powerful complement to such novels as A Distant Shore (which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize three years ago), Foreigners is really one piece of a mosaic that Phillips has been carefully and patiently putting together all his life. Britain cannot know itself, he suggests, until it acknowledges...
...manage to win." Minutes later, a beaming Karamanlis, 51 and of noted political pedigree, arrived at the central election headquarters, claiming a victory he described as "a strong mandate for a new and more dynamic beginning," setting off a storm of celebrations that eclipsed weeks of grief - and anger - that swelled from a deadly spate of forest fires that killed 65 people and left much of the country ravaged...
...parliament since the tumultuous fall of a military junta the ruled the country between 1967 and 1974. A former conservative stalwart whom Karamanlis expelled in 2000 for his extremist rhetoric, Mr. Karatzaferis benefited from the backlash against the socialist party, attracting protest voters who ostensibly wanted to vent their anger at the two main parties than espouse LAOS's controversial views - including claims that the Jews were behind the Sept. 11 attacks...
...Technically, the chairman has the power to fine community members, and could, in theory, force them to pay (by, for example, cutting off their electricity) but he chooses not to do so. They are his neighbors, after all, and he does not relish provoking their anger. By all accounts he prefers a go-along, get-along style of management. One of the attendees at the road improvement meeting said she wished that sometimes the Chairman would show a stonger hand, but she knows that that, too, is unlikely. Like Lukashenko, he is a holdover from the Soviet...