Word: anguish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Somehow it seems that the anguish is misplaced. This becomes especially apparent when one considers the argument that this country's athletes are representatives in an athletic U.N., since they not only exemplify a sportsmanlike attitude, but prove American strength. Assuming that the U.N. is like the Olympics, something to be "won," it is indeed fortunate that America has the world's greatest weightlifter, for this proves to the world beyond a doubt that the United States is economically powerful. And Rev. Bob Richards' ability in the polevault has an obvious relationship to American development to guided missiles, while...
...afternoon last week, he brandished a copy of the December Harper's, then read excerpts from an article entitled "The Country Slickers Take Us Again." The article, a blast at farm subsidies, was enough to make any farm-belt Senator (such as Minnesota's Humphrey) writhe in anguish. Excerpts...
...brought him once more to the verge of death. In the brick row house on Rollins Street where he had spent nearly all his life, Mencken sank, fighting, into the twilight of aphasia. It was a cruel fate for a man of Mencken's measure, and in his anguish he rebelled against it. This week death finally came to Mencken...
...think our society is stable or mature enough not to be taken in by the quasi-sophistication of the film. Condoning marital infidelity in a humorous vein may go by the boards as fun but please consider the subsequent anguish, mistrust, and havoc it may provoke in the hearts of many married men and women. A RADCLIFFIAN--CLASS...
Britain's Royal Air Force, which has encountered similar problems, told FSR that it had tried scarecrows, shotguns and ultrasonic "sound" waves, all with little lasting effect. It is also trying sound recording of "birds in anguish," and mothballs strewn near the runways...