Word: angered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...heard about the 9/11 terrorist attacks. But she never guessed that one year later it would lead her to spend two rainy days fasting in front of the White House in protest against the President's threat to attack Iraq. Meeker worries about terrorism, and she thinks anti-American anger will only increase if the U.S. tries to remove Saddam with military force. "I've been wondering for months how we went from al-Qaeda to Iraq," she says. "I don't disagree that Saddam has done horrible things, but we need to look at the things we've done...
...Omaha, Neb.) where the agreed-upon illusion is stability. Schmidt is probably in touch with certain things: his football team, his wife's tuna-noodle casserole and, at this season of the year, his snowblower. What he is not in touch with is his feelings--in particular, with his anger. He would deny its very existence, or that of any other emotion that might upset the even tenor of his days...
...provocations, all fanned by the prospect of an impending war in Iraq. There is a disconnect here that is troubling: with every new incidence of terrorism, much of it directed against the U.S. and the West, citizens of Asia's supercities and rural communities seem to vent their anger back at Uncle Sam, not at the extremist groups responsible. Why? Because the U.S. is still seen as a bully. When the U.S. seizes a North Korean ship delivering missiles to Yemen, many Asians posit another act of American imperialism. "It looks like America is still trying to conquer the world...
...said, of course, about such Republican heroes as, Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon or George Bush the elder, all of whom used coded racial messages to lure disaffected blue collar and Southern white voters away from the Democrats. Yet it's with Reagan, who set a standard for exploiting white anger and resentment rarely seen since George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door, that the Republican's selective memory about its race-baiting habit really stands...
...Anger...