Word: angered
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...reacting to danger (real or imagined) may express himself in three ways: anger, anxiety or fear. Anger and fear find outlets in fight and flight, but anxiety is a painful in-between that allows neither fight nor flight. The anxious man suffers poor circulation, especially at the extremities ("cold feet"), his muscles are "all tightened up," his breathing is likely to become fast and shallow...
...last week, the note was still unanswered, and Washington still did not know what to do. Such shilly-shallying in the face of Peiping's provocation stirred the good, grey New York Times to red-hot anger, which was shared by more & more Americans. Wrote the Times: "Able, honest, faithful and diligent public servants have been stranded in Communist China by our Micawber Far Eastern policy . . . We cannot afford, if we want to retain a shred of prestige anywhere in Asia, to let men such as Angus Ward . . . suffer any further contumely as martyrs to our inability to decide...
Distaste for Disloyalty. For weeks, Bradley had been watching the Navy's admirals wage what he considered to be a reckless, unruly and dangerous campaign against this concept. Now, his anger up, he indignantly denied that as J.C.S. chairman he had been prejudiced against the Navy. When he stood against the Navy it was because, as he saw it, the Navy was wrong. He had been against building the Navy's supercarrier, the keel of which was laid early this year, then abandoned...
...what I know of tenderness and love and compassion taught me also the bleak rituals of keeping Negroes in their place." To think out and try to solve that problem, she has written Killers of the Dream, a red-hot Freudianized tract against racial segregation, which is certain to anger even more Southerners than her Strange Fruit...
...bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth." Churchill heaved himself to his feet and objected to the word "lies." The bewigged Speaker overruled him. Thereafter Churchill sat back impassively, sometimes as if dozing, and let the waves of invective roll over him. The only sign of anger was the growing pallor of his face...