Word: rage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paling in rage, Gaillard smashed his fist down on his desk with a bang that sent papers flying: "I repeat. It is not true. I am overwhelmed that a man of your quality uses arguments of this nature...
...Economist Sumner Slichter and Labor Leader Walter Reuther. Slichter (who drives a 1951 Ford) expressed hope that automakers, burned by "the unattractiveness of the 1958 cars," now will "come forward with models that meet the people's fancy and small, economical cars that may become the rage." One trouble with the auto industry, Slichter advised the Senate Finance Committee, is "the weird collection of headlights, fins, tails, wings, etc., that is called an automobile in 1958." Reuther agreed with a Dutch newsman who thought that U.S. cars were getting "sillier and bigger" and added: "I think the auto industry...
...rage of Moscow this week was a lanky (6 ft. 4 in.), curly-haired Texan whose long, flashing fingers at the piano keyboard put a rare thaw into the cold...
...economy of movement also produced fascinating effects, such as the shuttling plotters' dance in Act II, with Agamemnon's ghost in platform shoes tottering over them like a crippled bird. Throughout, Dancer Graham's movements of whiplike vitality and agonized angularities brought to life the rage in Clytemnestra's mind...
Television's newest rage consists of a jukebox full of rock V roll records, a studio full of dancing teenagers, and Dick Clark, a suave young (28) disk jockey full of money. For his go-minute American Bandstand, which is carried by 90 ABC stations each weekday (3 p.m., E.S.T.), Clark draws one of the biggest audiences in daytime TV, some 8,000,000 (half of them adults), 20,000 to 45,000 fan letters a week, and an income approaching $500,000 a year. Admits Clark: "It's all a little frightening...