Word: rage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Second National Bank. He said: "I have learned that my mother . . . is descended from . . . an ancestor . . . who was . . . a full-blooded Negro. Which makes every one of us, technically, either a Negro or the close relative of one." Neil's announcement is followed by screams of denial, rage and panic...
...literary prostitute, and starts writing "poisoned pap" that sells well. He even, like Author Caldwell, writes a novel ("with Sex aplenty") about "international bankers" who "cunningly and sedulously plotted wars for their own profit. This was what the American people wanted ... a scapegoat for their fear. . . . Sound and fury, rage and excess, anger and despair, defeated dreams, filled every page of the novel [and] Frank was sometimes faintly embarrassed by the wealth of adjectives. . . ." This is an embarrassment that Author Caldwell never seems to feel...
...ancient Incas fully appreciated chinchillas; they wore the skins and ate the flesh. Sometimes the Incas sheared them like tiny sheep, wove thistledown cloth of their "wool." In the late 19th Century, a rage for chinchilla swept the world of fashion-and furriers soon swept the Andes bare of the little animals...
...there any bypassing God. For, while men may try to forget or deny God, they cannot forget what Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno called "the God-ache." Implicit or explicit in all Kafka's work, the source of his religious rage, his drama, irony, despair and compassion, is this incompatibility, this eternal misunderstanding of God by man-the inability of man to grasp, by limited human standards, the standards of divine Justice or divine Grace...
According to the Boston Fireman's Band, marathoner Yun Bok Su wasn't the only foreigner to steal the local spotlight at Boston's Patriots Day celebrations. Traditional parade performers, the fireman's band smouldered with rage when the University music-makers got George Curley...