Word: ragingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then he came to abortion, and offered what amounted to a rebuke to the most fiery of the flock. "The way to end abortions," Buchanan declared, "is to change the human heart, and the human heart is not changed by getting in people's face with anger and rage; the human heart is changed by love." This includes, he told them, reaching out to women who have had abortions themselves: "What a woman needs after an abortion is the kind of love and care she did not get before the abortion...
...Buchanan and I had known Father McGonigal at Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C., in the mid-'50s, when McGonigal was the prefect of discipline there. McGonigal looked like a fire hydrant cased in a black cassock--short and squat, with iron muscle bulges. He radiated punitive rage. One morning he hammered a boy to the classroom floor with his fists and left him there with a concussion, the other boys too terrified to intervene. The Jesuits shipped McGonigal off to southern Maryland, to listen to the songbirds in a quieter parish...
...Maverick records--run by Madonna, who knows a thing or two about musical makeovers--and with Jagged Little Pill has delivered the butt-kicking album she wanted. The sound is more muscular; her voice is rawer, the guitar work more aggressive. The songs are about such topics as postbreakup rage (You Oughta Know) and overbearing parents (Perfect), and while the words are rarely as smart as they seem to think they are, this is straight-ahead rock, sweetened somewhat with pop melodiousness...
...RAGE IN ARGENTINA...
...PLAYED THE GROWNUP WHEN your boss dropped by your desk and, without so much as a "Good morning," disemboweled your latest departmental memo. You nodded, scribbled notes, praised his constructive criticism. Now, too peeved to concentrate, you phone a colleague and let your inner child rage. Grrrr. Insensitive troglodyte. Unappreciative bonehead. Grrrr. There, you feel better. Back to work...