Word: anguish
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...headlines last week. The West's two great empires-Britain and France-put in a damaging week. Bowing to the inevitable, France conceded a resentful Morocco the independence it might have granted, and thereby earned more gratitude, more than two years ago. Fighting the unthinkable, France watched in anguish and anger as its leaders fumbled and Algeria slipped away, and with it France's inexorably dwindling claim to world power...
Morning Line. In Boston, William L. Coilty and Ralph K. Stuart each filed suit for $5,000 against the New Haven Railroad, charged that they suffered "mental anguish, constant anxiety and financial loss" when the Narragansett Special arrived too late for them to bet the daily double at the track...
Somehow it seems that the anguish is misplaced. This becomes especially apparent when one considers the argument that this country's athletes are representatives in an athletic U.N., since they not only exemplify a sportsmanlike attitude, but prove American strength. Assuming that the U.N. is like the Olympics, something to be "won," it is indeed fortunate that America has the world's greatest weightlifter, for this proves to the world beyond a doubt that the United States is economically powerful. And Rev. Bob Richards' ability in the polevault has an obvious relationship to American development to guided missiles, while...
...afternoon last week, he brandished a copy of the December Harper's, then read excerpts from an article entitled "The Country Slickers Take Us Again." The article, a blast at farm subsidies, was enough to make any farm-belt Senator (such as Minnesota's Humphrey) writhe in anguish. Excerpts...
...brought him once more to the verge of death. In the brick row house on Rollins Street where he had spent nearly all his life, Mencken sank, fighting, into the twilight of aphasia. It was a cruel fate for a man of Mencken's measure, and in his anguish he rebelled against it. This week death finally came to Mencken...