Word: angered
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...alas, the pride soon changes to anger as young hero learns that cars have a built-in obsolescence, that manufacturers don't want to them repaired. And the anger, thoroughly , leads to the logic of the fast buck--you can't beat the racket, join it. So the mechanic bills for repairs he doesn't make, and for those he does...
...fears and beliefs, both real and forged, but sufficient to cause them to react to every move on our part quite as we react to every move on theirs. A shelter program of the size required to make it effective would provoke the Russians not unreasonably to a defensive anger, give them (and uncommitted nations) greater reason to suspect our intentions, compel them to react with countermeasures, and result finally in widening the lift between our two worlds. There is an important difference between increased retaliatory power on the one hand, and the formidableness of cement and cinder-block digging...
...everyone liked the Tribune's assistant publisher. There was a forbidding coldness to him; even today he rarely visits the newsroom. Intolerant of deadwood. Knowland started chopping at it; since 1958 he has fired ten editorial hands, and seven more have quit in anger. Knowland declared war on overtime, trimmed the Trib's virtually unlimited sick leave. He promoted his son Joe, 30, to overseer at large, and Joe antagonized much of the staff. The American Newspaper Guild, which had long failed to organize the Tribune, succeeded last year. To the guild's surprise. Bill Knowland...
...simulated hearing or trial. The first episode grilled a fictional "Lucky" Luciano. While the case did not unfold too coherently, and the crowd noises in the simulated hearing room were badly overdone, the program spectacularly captured the disorderly drama of committee hearings, with all their rambling language and flashing anger. Telly Savalas, a comparatively unknown actor, was superb as Luciano-full of gutter cynicism, arrogance, brutality, and yet at moments pathetic. The show's spontaneity derived partly from the fact that the lawyers involved were real, some of the best courtroom performers in New York (Richard Steel William Geoghan...
...Praise Famous Men, by James Agee, with photographs by Walker Evans. A new edition of a classic account of sharecropper life in the mid-'30s, written with luminous love, raging anger, Christian anguish, and cascading torrents of poetry...