Word: ragingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marine Corps does teach the uses of disciplined rage and the application of 'measured strength'-exactly what the United States is employing in Viet Nam today, and it has been asking for Reserves to volunteer. I am proud it believes I can be of some...
...abolish his bench. "Who testified against me?" demands the judge. "Well," says his friend, "there was Banker Jones." "He's usurious," snaps the magistrate. "He cheats little ol' ladies out of their life savings. Who else?" The acquaintance lists all the other witnesses, and with growing rage the judge denounces each as a scoundrel or worse. Finally the friend confesses that he has been kidding, that the committee in fact has rejected the bill. "Now why," sighs the judge, "did you go and make me say those things about the finest group of men I know...
...world where life was hard, society was static and hope lay in the hereafter. Patience meant resignation-a necessary quality for tillers of the soil and fishers of the sea, whose control over what happened to them was marginal. In such a frustrating scheme of things, outbursts of personal rage must have been no small social problem. The Ship of Fools, a 15th century compilation of doggerel homiletics by a German satirist named Sebastian Brant, warns that...
Plato too suppressed his rage And Socrates, for they were sage. Impatience born of irritation May lead to sin and dire damnation...
...Rage in Yellow Shirts. Even at that, Sukarno's balance is precarious. Last week mobs of angry anti-Red students stormed through Djakarta, blocking entrances to Merdeka Palace with stolen trucks and forcing Sukarno to send helicopters to pick up his Cabinet ministers for the swearing-in ceremony. Nervous guards fired into one group, killing three students. That brought on a second mob scene, with 100,000 students-led by yellow-shirted members of the Indonesian Student Action Command (KAMI)-lining the five-mile funeral route. Sukarno retaliated by outlawing KAMI, declaring a curfew, and forbidding groups of five...