Word: anguish
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...common wee of the dilettante History and lit concentrator is a sense of frustration about not absorbing what is available. Strong good intentions with a hope of fulfillment are unofficial pre-requisites for History and Lit. Mental anguish is the alternative...
...friends. We are all your friends. We all love you, in spite of the unlovableness you feel. Presently you will begin to realize that, and relax a little . . . And as you come to understand us better, and we you, the warmth of love will begin to replace your present anguish and you will find yourself helping us and getting well...
...dark night' which even the perfect need to attain absolute purity; and to attain that end, it has to be bitter agony." Writes Professor Fiedler: "This is a difficult doctrine in all times and places, and it is especially alien and abhorrent in present-day America where anguish is regarded as vaguely unAmerican, something to be grown out of, or analyzed away, even expunged by censorship; and where certainly we do not look to our churches to preach the uses of affliction. It is consolation, 'peace of mind,' 'peace of soul,' that our religions offer...
Until last week, Washington planned to tighten up gradually on credit to fight inflation. Then Chairman Stuart Symington of the National Security Resources Board took a hand in the matter. Result: drastic new restrictions on housing and installment credit which brought loud cries of anguish from businessmen and consumers...
...jury adjudged Byrnes $1,000 for his economic loss and another $1,000 for the mental anguish suffered. Byrnes' counsel, Arthur E. Sutherland, professor of Law, was denied his plea for battery...