Word: rage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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British sportswriters fumed in disbelieving rage. "The show put on by our team." wrote one in the London Daily Mirror, "was lamentable, inexplicable, and utterly unexpected." Said the Daily Telegraph: "Had their [the Americans'] exploits been recorded in a school adventure story, it would have been held to be improbable." Demanding to know how the highly favored British women's tennis team could have suffered such a humiliating defeat (6-1 ) at the hands of the U.S. girls, the Daily Sketch called for an official investigation. Indeed, about the only Britons who gracefully accepted the loss...
California's Democratic Governor, Edmund G. ('Tat") Brown, was off last week on a four-day fishing trip to Loon Lake-and one of his own cabinet members thought that was a most appropriate place for the Governor to be. With a roar of rage, Robert McCarthy, 40, resigned from his post as state director of motor vehicles. Wrote McCarthy: "It has become difficult for me to work for a spineless administration that lacks both courage and principle. When I accepted your appointment in January 1959, we agreed to the seriousness of the traffic problem, and the need...
...scraggle-bearded economic czar. Che Guevara. Che, author of one of the basic Communist treatises on guerrilla warfare, proved himself a troublesome parliamentary guerrilla. He began by objecting to "almost all the affirmations'' made in the opening round of speeches, once stormed in a blind rage out of the conference hall-and into the ladies' rest room. (Said a Guatemalan delegate: "If there were not a halo of blood surrounding this flabby Cantinflas. he would actually be amusing.") Che's own opening speech was a 2½-hour diatribe against the U.S. (which he called...
...form of frustration, no kind of rage, can compare to the feelings of a Manhattanite stuck in traffic. He taps his feet, pounds his fist against the windowpane, vows to move to Colorado, and wishes he could jump out of his conveyance with a ray gun, cutting a deadly path through the surrounding metal wilderness of trucks, buses and cars. Ray guns, so far, are out; but there is an escape machine that a small, hardy band of New Yorkers are using to beat the traffic nightmare: the bicycle...
...story, by Colette, has a Hans Christian Andersen simplicity: a naughty child, in a harlequin rage, rips up the furniture, twists the cat's tail, yanks the clock's pendulum and exults: "I'm free-naughty and free." In the second scene, the animals gather to threaten the child, forgive him only after he has come to the aid of an injured squirrel...