Word: anguish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator Bricker's own brain child, an amendment to his original resolution, gave up the ghost quietly enough, but the protracted anguish came on the question of final Senate passage for a milder proposal that had been submitted by Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter George...
...hand to greet them. But plans to deck the streets in bunting and turn the vacation into a chamber-of-commerce carnival were abruptly halted on a suggestion from the White House. The official welcoming ceremonies were brief, and the list of greeters was cut down (to the anguish of many California politicos) to Governor Goodwin Knight and a few top Republicans. Within 36 hours of his arrival, Ike received 1,200 letters and telegrams, mostly invitations from politicians and movie moguls. All were politely declined...
Malraux had written: "The alcove of Vermeer, a flower painting by Chardin, give us a view of a world where man is less antlike than in his own." But, Onimus responds: "What anguish in these few lines! And, in fact, perhaps what misgivings! Does Malraux seriously believe that Vermeer's alcove, Chardin's bouquet, however beautiful they are, contain within them the power of salvation? . . . His position is untenable...
...lost their lives in the wreck. One railroad worker bound for his brother's wedding raced forward to the women's flaming car to check on his wife and five children just after the crash. They were all dead. "There was not a wail of anguish," he said later, "not a cry for help. They were all killed in a second. And for three months my wife had been preparing for the wedding...
...human beings reduced to a status lower than that of animals' filthy, full of lice; festered wounds full of maggots; their sickness regulated to a point just short of death . . . isolated, faced with squads of trained interrogators, bullied incessantly, deprived of sleep and browbeaten into mental anguish." But always, in return for signing a confession of having conducted germ warfare, the prisoners were promised an end to torture, good treatment, mail from home that been withheld, and often a reprieve from a death sentence passed by a communist court...