Word: raging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Perhaps we foresee a time when men, exultant in the technique of homicide, will rage so hotly over the world that every precious thing will be in danger, every book and picture and harmony, every treasure garnered through two millenniums, the small, the delicate, the defenseless-all will be lost or wrecked, or utterly destroyed." Having gone so far he promptly went further...
...editorial that somehow got by Izvestia's editors. "Spurred by thoughts of sabotage, the leaders developed a series of trials and demotions of dozens of collective farm chairmen, brigade chiefs and chairmen of village Soviets. . . . But it is clear to every one that the violent administrative rage that has swept leaders of the region has nothing to do with the Bolshevist struggle against the true enemies and wreckers. Better Bolshevist organization and more businesslike care of combines and combine operators, of thousands of shock workers and of collective farm labor and less panic and terrible sentences, Comrades of Saratov...
Sitting in the back row, Senator Guffey listened with careful unconcern to the Wheeler vituperation, but when Wyoming's O'Mahoney began to speak his face turned gradually bright red with rage. Said Senator O'Mahoney...
...Manhattan, Mayor LaGuardia, father by adoption of a young daughter, burst into a fine Italian rage, summoned his commissioners of police and correction and ordered one to set up a Sex Bureau like Chicago's, the other to do everything possible to keep all sex offenders locked up until their cases could receive a thorough psychological investigation. Roared the impetuous little mayor: "There are many legal loopholes through which these offenders can now escape full punishment for their crimes. But, God help the judge who turns one of these men loose if anything happens afterward...
...than the action of a man who lacks either the subtlety to untie it or the humor to let it alone. European surrealists have recently publicly allied themselves with the French and Spanish Communists, thus provoking the Führer's political enmity as well as his esthetic rage...