Word: rage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adjusted some of the details of his authoritarian rule to popular preferences. He was even willing to consider the necessities of hemispheric diplomacy. After the U.S. and Great Britain recalled their ambassadors last fortnight, Perón did not fly into a supernationalist rage. He cooed, and turned the U.S.-British pressure to good account in his feud with Perlinger...
...Halifax emerged, reporters ran up to find out what had happened in Round Two. In his best dash-it-all manner, Lord Halifax replied: "Oh, I forgot to mention that. Rather an oversight. Too bad, wasn't it?" Thus coolly, the British Ambassador dismissed Mr. Hull's rage as a teacup tempest, and the incident was closed...
...Spanish but very poor English. He got his first spot in a live show last summer, at the time of the Los Angeles zoot-suit riots, adopted the zoot-suit as a satiric badge. His act was a flop till he went to Mexico City, where he became the rage overnight...
...years, meantime take steps to save Germany from economic depression and turn the new German generation to constructive and attainable goals. On benevolent Allied parole, the German people must work out their own salvation. Otherwise their frustration will fester on, and some day explode again in another ratlike rage...
Somehow the U.S. had not been able to work up any real rage over the latest wave of strikes. The Detroit foremen's strike, which made 60,000 men idle, had been knocked in the head quickly when the Air Forces Chief, General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold, told the War Labor Board at a public hearing that the Air Forces had lost 250 Mustang fighters through the strike. But the strike brought few letters to editors, and few editorial cartoons. Below the level of Washington bigwigs, no one seemed outraged...