Word: anguish
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...lost their lives in the wreck. One railroad worker bound for his brother's wedding raced forward to the women's flaming car to check on his wife and five children just after the crash. They were all dead. "There was not a wail of anguish," he said later, "not a cry for help. They were all killed in a second. And for three months my wife had been preparing for the wedding...
...human beings reduced to a status lower than that of animals' filthy, full of lice; festered wounds full of maggots; their sickness regulated to a point just short of death . . . isolated, faced with squads of trained interrogators, bullied incessantly, deprived of sleep and browbeaten into mental anguish." But always, in return for signing a confession of having conducted germ warfare, the prisoners were promised an end to torture, good treatment, mail from home that been withheld, and often a reprieve from a death sentence passed by a communist court...
...death; unshaven, without haircuts or baths for as much as a year; men in rags, exposed to the elements; fed with carefully measured minimum quantities and lowest quality of food and unsanitary water . . . isolated, faced with squads of trained interrogators, bullied incessantly, deprived of sleep and browbeaten into mental anguish...
Behind the drawn blinds and chain-locked doors of his mansion in suburban Mission Hills, Kans., an old man last week waited in anguish. He was wealthy and respected, but Robert C. Greenlease. 71. felt the poverty of the helpless. His young son had been kidnaped...
...young woman's death, the film skirts mawkishness and makes the bereavement of the lover more deeply felt. But above all, the intensity of Devil in the Flesh is due to the performances of Gerard Philipe and Micheline Presle. Every expression and intonation is eloquent if the anguish of a boy struggling to cope with a man's problem or of a woman too old for her lover. Though the minor portrayals, particularly of the boy's tolerant father are flawless, it is the interpretations of Francois and Marthe that endow Devil in the Flesh with a beauty and power...