Word: rage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tommy Hart insists that his officers keep close to the men in the ranks, share their troubles, watch their morale. He is liberal with praise for work well done, worries a good deal about naval etiquette. An "O.K., sir" instead of an "Aye. Aye, sir" turns him purple with rage. But when anyone complains about seeing sailors loaded to the gunnels staggering around Manila, he steps stoutly to their defense. When seamen, after weeks at sea, roll ashore, he feels they sometimes have a right to "make a rough liberty." Anyhow, he adds complacently, only about 100 are ever reported...
...broadcasts, and it has given a weekly evening sustaining half-hour to what is probably the wackiest show on the air - Studio X, which from 10:30 to 11 E.S.T. Friday nights kids the pants off radio. In its big-business way, NBC has put cooperative Mutual in a rage by hooking one of its first-class evening shows: Ballantine's Three-Ring Time, which goes on the Blue...
Herr Hitler's submarines, by their most recent torpedoings, have given the people of this country some tangible alibi for urging Congress to scrap the Neutrality Act. The sudden outcry of "out-rage" and "dastardly rattlesnake" must be reminiscent, to those who lived through it, of the last war and the Lusitania...
Boos & Catcalls. Congressmen, somewhat closer to business facts than Henry Morgenthau, reacted to the Secretary's proposal with cries of rage or the chill of absolute indifference. Nearly every Representative could point to at least one humming business in his own district which would be completely ruined if all returns over 6% of its puny original stake went to the Government. Democrats and Republicans alike were indignant. Everyone, in & out of Congress, agreed that no decent business in 1941 wants to make a fortune out of World War II, but neither did the U.S. want to make its ablest...
...given horrible, almost indecent distortions so that one will recoil on seeing them. The artist thus hopes to "suggest" the chaos and shock of disaster, the destruction of mind and spirit that takes place in such a catastrophe as the air raid on Guernica and, above all, the helpless rage and hatred of the trapped victims...