Word: anguish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shambles, the bedclothes scattered. Some time in the night, Pierre Delaitre had strangled Eileen and slashed her throat with a razor. She died on the Louis XIV bed. Pierre had cut his own throat, but not deeply enough. Bleeding heavily, he had scribbled an incoherent note telling of his anguish at losing the woman he could not live without, then tied one end of a 9-ft. rope around his neck. With the other end secured to the end of the bed, he had evidently walked backwards until the knot tightened and ended...
...decision. Dr. Thompson believed that his son was a happy medical student-until he found that Student Thompson never went near the lecture halls if he could help it. Not until a few years later did father Thompson discover that his son was a poet, and cry in anguish: "If the lad had but told...
What was Luther's experience? It was a conviction, coming from his own spiritual "anguish," that "God must reveal himself, if man is to find him." Luther had doubts, fostered by the bewildering changes of his world-the new discoveries, the rise of nationalism, and the incapacity of the 16th century popes to order Christianity as their predecessors had. These doubts "did not take the pale form of modern agnosticism, but [they were] the much more terrifying doubt whether God had forsaken him or no longer cared about this man, Martin Luther...
Republicans were quick to say that he was just a funny man. But he also discussed the dry issues of the party platforms, sometimes dryly; and he also frequently spoke with eloquence rarely heard in a political campaign: "We have become guardians of a civilization built in pain, in anguish and in heroic hope ... If we creak, the world will groan. If we slip, the world will fall. But if we use our right of initiative and of decision without bombast or bluster, if we use it with clear heads and steady nerves, we shall rise in strength and grow...
...train again pulled out before Ike could speak, then halted some distance off, where Ike and Mamie began to sign autographs. As the train started up for the second time, Ike caught Mamie in the act of handing a pen down to an autograph-seeker and cried out in anguish: "No, no, Mamie. That...