Word: rage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national anxiety has a good side, it is that the mood has finally penetrated to Capitol Hill. Congressman after Congressman asserts that letting inflation rage unchecked-and voting against anything that might seem likely to slow it-would be political suicide. The search for a way out of the economic morass has come to focus on a balanced budget, not as a panacea but as an indispensable first step toward getting the economy back under control. Besides, nothing else has seemed to work...
...insurgency a new dimension of credibility: the Kabul general strike demonstrated exactly the kind of organized resistance that had been conspicuously absent from the disunited guer rilla campaign the mujahidin (as the Muslim "holy warriors" call themselves) have been conducting in the countryside. At the same time, the civilian rage gave the He to the Kremlin's arguments that in the name of reciprocal friendship its forces had run to the rescue of the Afghan people and their legitimate government...
Said Chief Medical Examiner James Weston: "Virtually every one of the bodies had overkill, which is to say that there was more than mob hysteria. There was rage." Added Dr. Marc Orner, the psychologist at the prison: "None of us really understands what happened in there...
...with all that pushing away, he persists. It's persuaded me that men want women more than women want men." To Friday, fantasies are not just inner movies that add spice to sex. Their function is to deal with the mix of frustration, love and rage that men feel toward women. Says Friday: "At least for a sexual moment, magic is called in, reality altered, the perceived nature of woman changed and the conflict is healed...
...penises or sperm. No one proposes calling out a SWAT team to deal with this sort of whoopee-cushion wit. It is not sullenly antisocial, like the blaring radios the size of steamer trunks that adolescents haul onto public buses to cook up a small pot of community rage, or the occasional pistols that got waved in gas lines...