Word: rage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like a man in a frenzy of rage who cares neither what he says nor who hears him, the Soviet state howled its fury at defenseless, white-haired Novelist Boris Pasternak. Pasternak himself, after first telegraphing his joyful acceptance, seven days later refused the Nobel Prize awarded his poems and his novel, Doctor Zhivago: "In view of the meaning given to this honor in the society to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize . . . Do not meet my refusal with ill will." Still the screaming invective poured out, and the U.S.S.R. spilled it across the world without...
...more or less at will, candidates were terrorized. They could not make campaign speeches, shake hands, or get before the people in any fashion, except from the safety of heavily guarded TV stations. A few were shot down. In Oriente province, balloting was virtually impossible. In a frenzy of rage, Castro laid ambushes along the major highways. Burnt-out cars and buses studded the roads, and Santiago, capital of Oriente, was virtually cut off. To make his point clear, Castro got on the rebel radio and warned: "The orders to the people for Nov. 3 are: Do not go outside...
...Hayworth found himself accused of treason. Big Labor refused to back Hayworth against Chamberlain in 1956, this year entered the Democratic primary against Hayworth with its own candidate. Hayworth headquarters accused the labor leaders of "Nazi-like" action, and Flint's C.I.O. Council President Norman Bully roared in rage: "It is the straw that breaks the camel's back! Anybody who can compare the unions with the Nazis is not a friend of labor." Hayworth easily won the primary, but Big Labor's billboards in the Sixth District list all major Democratic candidates except Hayworth...
...Negro boy say he would not get off the sidewalk. "I could see it building up in him," says McCarty. "I knew he was going to hit one of them." When the punch came, McCarty caught a memorable picture of a teen-ager exploding in a burst of rage expressive of a deep yearning for equality and civil rights...
...dowdy Queen's bosom friend-largely because Sarah had become haughty and downright rude to the Queen. When Sarah at last discovered that the ungrateful "dust broom" had swept her off the royal doorstep, she pelted the Queen with abuse, venting her spleen in "thunderclaps of fury and rage." Before a horrified crowd, she quarreled with her on the very steps of St. Paul's Cathedral...