Word: rage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rage and humiliation, Ali hid in a shed situated some 30 feet downhill from the hut, and there fell asleep. Wakened by the smell of smoke, he realized in horror that the widow's house was on fire, and made violent attempts to drag himself up the steep slope to save her. But his body, weakened by a lifetime of socially induced inactivity, was so feeble that it took him half an hour to cover less than 30 feet. When the villagers came running up the hill, they found Ahmad and the widow dead in bed and the beggar...
Soon his health began to fail. In 1962 he quit for good to retire to his home in Connecticut and write an autobiography implausibly titled Paper Tiger. "I left the Trib in disappointment and rage both times," he lamented. But honest rage was more than half the secret of Stanley Woodward's success as a sports editor...
hand; And in their rage, I having hold...
Born. To Suzy Parker, 32, onetime model, sometime actress (Circle of Deception), and Bradford Dillman, 34, brooding cinemactor (A Rage to Live): their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles...
...Knife. From the Renaissance through the 18th century the countertenor was the most popular singer in Europe. Monteverdi, Bach, Handel, and especially Henry Purcell, himself a countertenor, composed a wealth of lute songs, folk ballads, cantatas, hymns, operas, madrigals and carols for the male alto. The rage for the high-pitched male voice also helped give rise to the castrati singers-boy sopranos castrated before puberty. In 18th century Italy, parents received a handsome fee for each son to go under the knife. But with the dawning of the romantic era in the 19th century, the delicate voices...