Word: raging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than the Premier, is Ismail Sidky Pasha. He once made a fine puppet Premier for Britain (1930-33) and itches for that palmy job again. In an effort to shake Britain down and make it seem necessary to buy his silence, Statesman Sidky abruptly flew into a rabble-rousing rage last week, roared out part of what any Egyptian leader would say if he tried to speak for the long-oppressed and today spunkless Egyptian people...
...commission investigated his charges, reported last week with gravity that they had reason to believe that Lerroux's Nephew Aurelio, his onetime Minister of the Interior Rafael Salazar Alonso and half a dozen other Radicals had taken Straus's money. Old Lerroux, his white mustaches trembling with rage, replied that it was a fiendish Monarchist plot to split Spain's Centre coalition. Mexican Straus could not be found last week anywhere but, amid Monarchist chortles, Premier Chapaprieta's Cabinet seemed doomed...
Sure enough, embattled farmers rose last week, capturing Hsiangho 40 mi. from Peiping, and besieging Yungching west of Tientsin. When General Shang dispatched two companies of Chinese soldiers to quell the rebels, Japanese officials flew into a rage, thundered that the rebels were in the official "demilitarized zone" set up after the Tangku Truce (TIME, June 5, 1933), and therefore could not be touched by Chinese soldiers who must not enter it. Down sat the two companies of Chinese on the opposite bank of a canal from the demilitarized zone, within sound of the shooting rebels & ronin...
This put the Ethiopian commander facing General Graziani, Dedjazmatch Nassibu, in a towering rage. His lion's mane headdress trembling with emotion, that chieftain roared...
...congested rage of six long months of restraint boiled up out of one of the world's most naturally savage peoples. Mobilization means nothing in Ethiopia. When the drums sound, the men go to their chiefs, the chiefs start for the enemy and the war is on. In Addis Ababa the 5,000 in the Emperor's courtyard heard the order out, solemnly applauded three times, then went into a fit. They brandished their swords, accidentally slicing off some of each other's ears and noses, spotted a nearby huddle of white news hawks and had almost...