Word: rage
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...busted romance or a failed exam easily, but to someone already highly sensitized to such setbacks, they can be intolerable. "These are people who are already angry," says Samenow, "and when things don't go the way they want them to, they personalize it. They take out their rage not on the person who hurt them last, but on the whole world...
...small group of youths had remained at the college as lookouts, with instructions to ring the college bell if another wave was sighted. Late on Monday night, he says, one of the youths rang the bell for fun. There was panic on the hillside, followed by relief and rage when locals realized the young people had been joking. "They were looking for the boys to punch them," says Baul. But false alarm or not, no one in Kukundu is in a hurry to return to town...
...same way with Jorgen. Underneath his affability there is a willful and angry self-made man - and a brutality that is openly manifested in a drunken restaurant brawl that is not quite as surprising as we at first think. We've always suspected that there is more rage in him than he dares to let on. He would not have gotten rich so fast without it. And all along, we have sensed that his support for Jacob's orphanage is contingent on bending him to the rich man's implacable will, which includes a reunion between his wife...
...more militant forces fill the void and stir dissent within what is, for the most part, a pro-Western and moderate Muslim population. (Nearly half of Africa's people are devotees of Islam.) So whether as a moral or strategic imperative, it's folly to let this fire rage...
...Mayor Hruby, who drove an ambulance before taking office eight years ago, can't conceal his rage at a government that is refusing to "ask the people" to decide in a nationwide vote whether to accept the missile shield facilities on Czech soil. Not seeing a single benefit to having American troops in his backyard, he would certainly vote...