Word: rage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...authority. They shout, and the Partisan Command listens. A peasant told the Partisan Command that he was sorry, but he could not give up his horse for transport until the plowing was done. Patiently the Partisan Command waited. Correspondent Pribichevich's landlady came home one day in a rage. She had been held for questioning because she had tried to salvage some wood from a bombed building...
...Neither the Pulitzer Committee nor the New York Drama Critics' Circle could find any U.S. play of the season worthy of a prize; but business was brisk enough to create acute theater shortages for weeks on end.* For a time theatrical junk collecting was so much the rage that, according to Columnist Walter Winchell, a wag hoped his new show would be able "to overcome the good notices...
...cold rage of Author Gordon's mood and prose gives The Women on the Porch literary distinction. Some readers may feel that, like the famed poem by her husband, Allen Tate, Author Gordon's novel might just as well have been called Ode to the Confederate Dead...
Solid Pattern. In reality, the pattern of air attack, while growing in scope, had not yet fully shifted to the ferocious concentration on German military communications which would be the logical "attack bar rage" directly before invasion. Main Allied air objectives were still: 1) German air industry, 2) air power in being, 3) other industry, 4) Western Europe's railroad system...
...Hazlitt published a passionate defense of the Reverend Joseph Priestley, radical and scientist. But his zeal for religion faltered; young Hazlitt decided to become a painter. Art proved tumultuous. When his canvases displeased him - as they often did - Hazlitt slashed them to pieces in fits of rage. Nice girls also displeased Hazlitt. When Charles Lamb introduced Hazlitt to a group of them, the essayist snarled that "they drove him mad." Well established already, says Authoress Maclean, was the "deep division in his nature ... a tendency to react from extreme refinement of feeling to extreme grossness of desire." Wrote Coleridge : "Hazlitt...