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...boxing authorities have a set routine for soothing public anger whenever a fighter dies from a ring beating. The ritual calls for regrets, investigations, hearings, expert testimony and hopeful promises. Last week the New York State Athletic Commission had to begin the rites of atonement for the first time in 1951; Welterweight George Flores, 20, knocked out in Madison Square Garden,* died of a brain injury. Said the commission...
Said Admiral Joy, with icy anger: "You did not come here to stop the fighting, you did not come here to negotiate an armistice, you came here to state your political price for which you are willing to sell the Korean people a temporary respite from pain. You are engaged in these conferences only to present demands, not to negotiate solutions...
...Dzhigit." The night of Nov. 9, 1932 is memorable in Vasily's life. At a Kremlin party commemorating the 15th anniversary of the October Revolution, Nadezhda Allilueva argued with her husband about a political amnesty he was postponing, and in anger threw an inkstand at him. Early next morning, the Kremlin doctor was called to Stalin's apartment. Nadezhda lay dead on the floor. Stalin stood by, white and drawn, a pistol nearby on the desk. Nadezhda had committed suicide, he said, undoubtedly over a law exam she was studying...
...food didn't suit him, Vasily would hurl it on the floor, stamp out, and roar away in his plane to stunt off his anger. He drank brandy and vodka in gulping draughts from breakfast until bedtime. The base soccer team, the Stalin Commandos, either in victory rode the dizzying crest of his pleasure or in defeat the depths of his displeasure...
...year-old patriarch of Spanish art critics limped scornfully out of Madrid's baroque Crystal Palace. What shocked him, and many another Spaniard, was an exhibit of religious art from Roman Catholic mission fields. Traditionalist Spaniards looked with anger upon the freedom with which the faraway artists had rendered scantily clad Virgins, Chinese Holy Families, Indian Gods squatting Buddha-like-all dominated by a huge statue of Christ dressed as a sannyasi (Hindu ascetic) renouncing this world...