Word: rage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the sense of destiny ineluctably on the march. On countless lips was Sir Edward Grey's despairing cry of World War I that the lamps were going out all over Europe. Many genuinely feared that Europe would next be illumined by the fires of Hitler's rage. But a great number of the citizens of the Democracies, nervous though they were, felt a great deal less tragic than Edward Grey had sounded. They were able to bolster themselves with a variety of illusions...
Robeson caught, too, much of the final Othello who stifles Desdemona' not savagely from hate, but solemnly for honor. Earlier, however, when Othello's tortured soul is seared with rage, Robeson unwisely tried to reproduce Othello's violence-which on the stage becomes grotesque-instead of finding a way to suggest...
...Japs had an air base. In March-according to last week's reports-Korean workers suddenly attacked the base, set fire to four underground hangars, destroyed two big fuel tanks and 69 airplanes, killed 142 of the Jap crew and wounded or scorched another 200. Trembling with rage and fright, the surviving Japanese butchered every Korean on the island, some...
...Danes began "accidentally" pushing German officers into Copenhagen's canals. So bitterly were the Poles still resisting that, despite fresh slaughters each week, the occupying authorities had tried to set up a Polish puppet government to keep order. When no puppets could be found, the Germans released their rage in the volleys of firing squads. In Norway the invaders confiscated 80% of the herring catch. Living now on herring and seed potatoes, the Norwegians were told by Vidkun Quisling that next winter they will eat only bread made of fine sawdust and "peat flour...
...brought total U.S. military appropriations for World War II to a colossal $205 billion-$51billion more than the Government spent for all activities (including five other wars) from 1789 to 1940. Said New York's Republican Representative John Taber, who in other days was wont to stiffen with rage at the idea of even a million-dollar appropriation* : "Perhaps it will bankrupt us, but even that is unimportant compared with the necessity...