Word: raged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the early days of automotion, battery-powered cars were the rage: in 1900, fully a third of the autos in New York City, Boston and Chicago ran on electricity. Now, in the era of the oil crisis, the electric auto has started to return, on drawing boards and occasionally on the road, moving slowly but polluting not at all. The Postal Service operates 380 electric Jeeps, and at least ten U.S. firms produce electrics for adventuresome customers. But electric cars are a long way from mass production. Who wants a car that cannot...
...there were other crazies in 1977. The people who looted during the power blackout, for example. Good liberals justified the looting by pointing out that these people were 'hungry,' and were expressing 'racial rage.' Except for the fact that the looters took televisions, stereos and couches, not food, and the fact that T.V. news cameras clearly showed not rage but actual gaiety on the faces of the looters, this theory holds up. Of course, right knees jerked as rapidly as the left ones, as some observers claimed that the looters stole because they were human jackals, amoral animals, the scum...
...effects of the drug are so unpredictable that users call it "heaven and hell." Irrational or violent action is typical of chronic users, but even dabblers are not immune to sudden rages. A small dosage of PCP can produce a high that resembles drunkenness and can lead to anything from euphoria and a sense of bouncing to depression and hallucinations. Larger doses can bring convulsions, psychosis, uncontrollable rage, coma and death. "It's a real terror of a drug," says NIDA Director Robert DuPont. "Everything people used to say about marijuana is true about angel dust...
Neil Simon has established a precedent in this area by saying that his new play is autobiographical, that it is, in effect, about the trauma he experienced at the death of his first wife and the rage over that loss, which he callously inflicted on his second wife even though she made him supremely happy...
Practical politics. But is that all? At the Boar's Head tavern, Prince Hal carouses with his companions in open parody of the society at court; at court, "Hotspur" Percy (the other Hal) releases his rage with the complete lack of self-control typical of the society at the Boar. The two worlds, in other words, are peopled with men and women of the same mettle, though any good production of Henry will, as if constructing a strong suit of armor, in joining the various elements hold them in tension...