Word: rage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much easier to reach Newell now than at anytime. You merely take the shortest route and venture across the the Charles, which is shorter in yardage, but it is questionable whether the impromptu hockey game which rage over its frozen surface are less of a hazard to navigation than the traffic over the Andreson bridge...
...Iturbi has been in the U.S. since 1929, has worked hard to get into big-league conducting (Ford Sunday Evening Hour, Eastman Rochester Symphony). One of his stunts has been to conduct from the keyboard, while playing a Liszt or Beethoven concerto. He enjoys periodic crescendos of rage (against jazz, hot dogs, flash bulbs, etc.), makes a point of being nearly late at concerts. He plays a Baldwin piano, and wherever he goes he is attended by a sort of caddy, supplied by the Baldwin people to look after the piano, piano stool, pianist. Plaintively the caddy says...
...fury: "Where is the Navy? Tell me that? Do you know? What's it doing?" There was a widespread ripple of emotion throughout the country last week at the fall of Manila (see p. 19). But the U.S. can expect stronger waves of emotion in this war-grief, rage, hate and elation. Last week a dominant emotion was bewilderment...
Nothing that happened last week could prevent the spreading of cold rage through an already frigid spike of a man-Reinhard Heydrich, Adolf Hitler's chief executioner. For, clearly, the thousands of tired bodies he had rushed to the rope or the firing squad had not cowed Europe's revolt against Hitler's New Order...
This was a showdown. The U.S. and Japan were nearer war than at any moment of their history. In a speech that was like a cry of pain and rage-and also of disappointment-Japanese Tojo called on his people to purge Asia of British and American exploitation...