Word: rage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...storms that rage about the heads of Washington officials, none matches in intensity and duration the high, fine gale that whistles about Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson. Adding to the airy velocity last week was the voice of Nebraska's Republican Congressman A. L. Miller, who called on Benson to resign from the Eisenhower Cabinet for the good of the Republican Party. The demand was not surprising, for Benson has nearly as many hostile Republican as Democratic critics...
...Rivers of Blood." Crying fraud, Ydigoras threatened that "rivers of blood would flow" if Ortiz were allowed to take office. That day thousands of people appeared before his headquarters shouting their rage. Said the general: "People of Guatemala! If they give it to the Italian [Italian-descended Ortiz], we shall march!" That evening a temporary coalition of Ydigoras' rightists and non-Communist leftists, needled by a few Reds, and all united only in opposition to the M.D.N., marched into Central Park in downtown , Guatemala City, brushed aside the police and set off the first riot...
...orchestra: shy, petite Nannette Levy, 30, who throws her whole body behind her impassioned bowing. The Dallas Symphony will open the season with selections it is dedicating to veterans, with a Congressional Medal of Honor winner present as a guest. In Houston Leopold Stokowski, who flies into a rage if anyone says he is more than 70, has found an unlikely new musical home, and though he has never quite stepped out of the limelight, is experiencing another renaissance. Stokie's Houston Symphony concerts are sold 98% in advance, and he has produced first-rate new recordings...
...rock 'n' roll, Hollywood movies ("The Killer with a Soul . . . You'll love him . . . Bring the family"), the wide screen, blaring jazz bands, TV commercials. But before long, a little boy (played by Chaplin's son, Michael, 11) buttonholes the king, and in a semihysterical rage rants about witch-hunting, the atom bomb, freedom ("There's no freedom here . . . They don't give you a passport"). The Committee on Un-American Activities has named the boy's parents as Communists. They have left the party but refuse to finger their friends...
...pressure cabin. In Chicago last month, when she turned up for the national Clay Courts championship, hotels in stuffy Oak Park would not rent her a room; the swank Pump Room of the Ambassador East Hotel refused reservations for a luncheon in her honor. Officials and newsmen burned with rage, but Althea hardly noticed it. "I tried to feel responsibilities to Negroes, but that was a burden on my shoulders," says she. "If I did this or that, would they like it? Perhaps it contributed to my troubles in tennis. Now I'm playing tennis to please...