Word: angriest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Issue. Angriest of all are Walker's onetime ardent supporters, the liberal independents, who were largely responsible for elevating the little-known corporation lawyer to the governorship. They are enraged by what they consider his turn to the right. Rather than abolishing the death penalty as he pledged in 1972, he signed a bill establishing it for certain cases, for example the murder of a policeman. He excoriates "welfare cheaters." He boasts that he is the first Governor in 27 years to avoid raising taxes. As he sees it, this is the key issue of the campaign. Says Walker...
That analysis, however, came as an afterthought to a session that a number of people, who addressed each other as "comrade," had spent wrangling over the politics of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola. There was an urgency to the rhetoric; the angriest and least tolerant speeches got the most applause, and despite the appeal by moderator Ernest Wamba, lecturer on African and Afro-American Studies at Brandeis, for people to "try hard to analyze rather than recite," those who suggested that the MPLA was being manipulated by the Soviet Union were abused and ignored...
...grateful to the Movement for giving me a channel, a constructive way to use my rage," says Susan Brownmiller, 40, a veteran journalist and one of the brightest and angriest of America's feminists...
...that could have easily degenerated into agitprop; instead it is made a continually probing revelation of period and character. Led by a beautiful, red-haired widow, Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia, the suffragettes endured ridicule, torture and repeated jailings; several of them were killed. The angriest went underground, accelerating their demands with bombings and trashings. Perhaps fortunately for both sides, World War I broke out. Mrs. Pankhurst wasted no time in exchanging militancy for the more politically rewarding role as a leader of women war workers. Sure enough...
...Englanders are angriest of all, since their region is most dependent on imported oil and would be hardest hit by the Ford tariff. Last week the New England caucus released a letter challenging Ford's right to act under the 1962 trade act without public hearings. "No matter what the Congress does," says a New England lobbyist on Capitol Hill, "the tariff makes it Ford's program. He'll be blamed for the consequences. It'll be like Lyndon Johnson...