Word: anguish
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...would have annoyed Rousseau; probably he would have accused the writer of bias, and of seeing modern civilized evils in the simple life of primitive man. For Under the Mountain Wall presents a picture of stone age existence in New Guinea that is filled with just as much anxiety, anguish and striving as the life of any modern city dweller...
...seconds the earth shook, crumbling houses and shops into rubble. Some survivors wandered in the streets, wailing in anguish as they searched for relatives and friends. Others huddled dazedly over fires in the open fields. A driving rain and heavy winds made the night miserable, and morning brought two more earth tremors. El Marj had lived through bombing and battles during World War II as British and Axis forces took and retook the town. But the quake flattened El Marj as war never did. Rescue workers said that not a single house remained habitable, and the Libyan Red Crescent appealed...
When his Boston Celtics are on the basketball floor, Coach Arnold ("Red") Auerbach, 45, sits hunched forward on the bench as if it were the edge of a razor blade, his face flickering between anguish and rage. He once punched a heckling rival club owner in the mouth, has nearly come to blows with innumerable referees, and by his own reckoning pays something like $400 a season in fines for arguing too much. But if no one has ever accused Auerbach of being a popular coach, no one questions his success. In twelve years under Auerbach, the Celtics have never...
...intense, are small also. The sole (and partial) exception is his novel of Everyslob, Rabbit, Run. Here his hero is a former high school basketball star whose memories of past glory give him immortal longings. When his life runs aground in the shallows of marriage, he is moved in anguish to ask: "Is this all there is?" It might also be asked of Updike, for he leaves the question unanswered, and the book ends seemingly with author as well as hero lost in uncertainty...
...Western affairs, but also Britain's custom of being beastly to one's friends and sporting to one's enemies. If we were ever to behave toward those whose purpose is to bury us the way we behave toward the NATO allies, the peace movement would be up in anguish crying that the skybolt was falling...