Word: anguish
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...after the dinner, Butler's words were thickly spread over the nation's press, attributed to an anonymous "high Democratic source." The source was soon revealed and moans of anguish and anger rose from Democratic leaders. Hubert Humphrey demanded that Butler quit his job. "Unfortunate," grumbled Sam Rayburn. "Very unfortunate," echoed Harry Truman. But the prospect was that Paul Butler would remain at his post until after the Democratic Convention in July. Then he will leave, unmourned by Democrats...
...since the 11th century, when its owner, Macbeth, murdered King Duncan in his sleep, had there been such anguish at stately Glamis Castle in the chilly hills of Scotland. A fire broke out in an uninhabited wing, was extinguished by the local fire department before it engulfed the cozy apartments where Queen Elizabeth once romped, Princess Margaret was born, and the Queen Mother's family have lived for some 600 years. The Earl of Strathmore, the castle's present guardian, tried to brave the flames to rescue his Labrador puppy, then thought better...
Unscrewed Seats. In Northern executive suites, the directors of chain stores wrung their hands in anguish, decided to do nothing. (Negroes account for at least one-fourth of all business transacted in the 300 Southern branches of Woolworth's alone.) Local managers solved the problems in different ways: in Charlotte, the proprietor of the local McLellan Store unscrewed the seats from the lunch counter. Some Kress, Walgreen and Liggett stores roped off the seats so that everybody had to stand, or closed the lunch counters altogether...
...failed to buy the insurgents off, Delouvrier caved in emotionally. He had had only seven hours' sleep in five days. In a speech that was sometimes eloquent but more often rang like a wild cry of panic in the night ("I myself have been struck by paralysis, by anguish and by torment like all of you"), Delouvrier announced that, General de Gaulle having taught him how to decide, he and Challe had decided to leave Algiers and go to a command post in the country. He called upon Algeria's 9,000,000 Moslems...
...Ronald Knox (Little, Brown; $5), Biographer Waugh guards his friend's privacy like a medieval moat; whenever the book becomes personal, it is full of private jokes. Waugh's portrait is curiously Graham Greene-like, with Knox's outward urbanity masking a certain amount of inner anguish, his scrupulous conscience making him uneasy at any ease of faith...