Word: raging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deep Purple. Sometimes, enraged at a sloppy recitation, he would bang his heavy books together, jam them under his arm, and stalk out of the room in the middle of class. More often, he would turn purple, angrily adjust his eyeshade, or ferociously tap his forehead until his rage was spent. "You should be ribbon clerks!" he would bellow at his students. "Ribbon clerks behind a counter...
Bridge was almost eclipsed and so was gin rummy. A double-deck card game called Canasta had spread over the hemisphere. In Buenos Aires, citadel of the game, Canasta had progressed from a diversion to a rage...
Boston Saw Red. When all the 50 human cylinders in him were popping in rapid succession, Dickens was a holy terror. He went into a rage if a single piece of furniture in his house was moved or left untidied; he pinned angry notes to his quaking daughters' pincushions, urging them to better habits. On the other hand, he thought nothing of suddenly taking off and striding madly 15 or 20 miles through the night streets of London, or of popping through the window into a friend's drawing room, dressed as a sailor and dancing a hornpipe...
Debauched his virgin mother And vowed in rage he would...
Bello had not been in a rage, he might not have demanded that the impresario get the finest bulls in Mexico for him and his brother Pepe to fight...