Word: anguish
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From all over Louisiana loud cries of anguish went up from business and labor. In New Orleans Chep Morrison called an emergency session of the City Commission and complained: "We don't understand why the people of New Orleans should be persecuted...
...would revert to "peace." Girding their loins for the Italian elections and the Marshall Plan battle. Communists meeting in Milan formed a "peace front" (TIME, Jan. 19), which in Palmiro Togliatti's words would "characterize Communist activity throughout the present historical phase" and would play on "the profound anguish which grips all classes at the very thought...
...Rome last week, Pope Pius XII reminded the International College of Surgeons that their moral duty is to spare unborn infants even at the risk of their mothers' lives. Surgeons, he said, should not heed "the understandable anguish of husbandly love" when faced with such a choice. "God alone is Lord of life...
...speak and never waste a word; he has gone farther than most moviemakers towards solving the difficult problems of silent cinema in a talk-ridden era. Some of his close-ups are extraordinarily long, but they are brimming with substance: the subtle, beautifully acted modulations of deep moral anguish...
...incident was no put-up job between professor and student. To "teach Professor Prosser some law," Poindexter had brought suit in the Cambridge (Mass.) courts for the return of the pocketed $5, plus $5 damages for mental anguish. Then he reconsidered. By mutual consent, the action was transferred to a mock court in the Harvard Law School. This week, before a courtroom of Harvardmen, District Judge Frederick A. Crafts of Waltham will hear the case of Poindexter v. Prosser. Professor Prosser has retained Professor Edmund M. Morgan, Harvard's expert on evidence, to defend him. Poindexter will have...