Word: anguish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wealthy nations want to help them, but not so much as to make their own citizens suffer. More specifically, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger believes that the newly rich oil-producing countries, which have quintupled the price of oil since 1973, are to blame for much of the economic anguish in the underdeveloped world and should share the burden...
...talks affectionately not only about his own children, but also about the children of the men he defeated, and the anguish it brought him to see the pained expression on their faces at ringside as he was beating their fathers' faces in. "Children are a special love in the life of a heavyweight champion. They have a way of making him know what love is." Ali also allows his first wife to include her story as to why their marriage broke up. The Ali we get from her narrative is an often immature, single-minded, tyrannical husband...
...asbestos apron spread on his lap. In 1963-64 he was able to continue a series of bronze hands begun in 1958−fists, palms skewered by rods, fingers clamped to a balk of timber. These Rodin-like images of survival and defiance are full of expressionist anguish. As autobiography they are corny but moving. On the other hand, the earlier small steel pieces are generally disappointing. They seem clogged by graphic cliches and distended by a frustrated longing for bigness...
...black to the ten wheels. They fill the hold with the tenderest chicken and juiciest steak, packing it all away in dry ice with flawless precision so that each day's meals come up on top in the proper order. On board, far above the world's anguish, life is eased by soft stereo and fingertip service from the six stewards. Who could resist...
...American society that finds brutality, inhumanity and just plain ugliness practically everywhere, and Kozol seems more intent on arousing feelings of guilt in his readers than on attempting to understand or analyze the problems he finds. In the first chapter he says he hopes he will provoke "pain and anguish" in the consciousness of the reader, and he has clearly put a lot of effort into writing a depressing book. The mood of the book--a pervasive feeling that Kozol is facing the apocalypse, alone, abandoned by all his liberal friends from Somerville--often seems more important to Kozol than...