Word: dander
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...reached the rendezvous by secret signs, sat on tiers of benches around a sand-covered circular pit. Eagerly they watched two handlers with bright-colored cocks on their arms advance to the centre of the pit, let their fighters peck at one another to get up their dander. There were no bookmakers. Bets (some as high as $100) were verbal, made with one's neighbor on the basis of the cocks' breeding or their fighting spirit in the centre of the pit. Then, at a command from the referee, the handlers returned to opposite sides...
Although reporters found Rexist Degrelle looking utterly sunk and blaming his defeat on the lack of silence from Malines, his Fascist dander was soon up again, and Berlin was expected to pour heavy contributions into fresh efforts to turn Belgium Rexist. Exulted Victor van Zeeland: "The result has exceeded my wildest hopes! And now to work-all together, for King, Law and Liberty...
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...backwoods" for presuming to call your hand on the misuse of the descriptive adjective, and you'd probably be right, but I ain't a-gonna stand by and let you brand a progressive organization that serves a progressive public as "backwoods," 'thout gittin' my dander...
...idyllic existence Mrs. Vorse was brutally awakened by the death of her husband. Forced now to support herself and her children, she turned to writing stories, articles, magazine assignments. With the Lawrence textile strike (1912) her story really begins. Her sympathetic investigation of conditions among the strikers got her dander up, gave her a full-time purpose in life. "I could do one thing. I could write. I could try to make other people see what I had seen, feel what I had felt. I wanted to make others as angry as I was. I wanted to see wages...