Word: anguish
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...most promising was Hudson Review, edited by three young Princeton alumni. It also promised the most, notably, never to fall into pedantry or opportunism, nor to "open its pages to those whose only merits lie in their anguish, their fervor, and their experimentation...
Poindexter, whose $5 was allegedly misappropriated by his instructor on February 13, states, in his declaration, that he "has been damaged to the extent of the five dollars and five dollars additional for great mental anguish, suffering, and embarrassment...
...newsmen whom he had summoned to his office, John said: "Your ears will soon be assailed by [the operators'] outcries and wails of anguish. To relieve themselves, they need only to comply with the provisions of the agreement." He had alerted his 400,000 soft-coal miners...
...than half a century before it ended, two men had felt that it was ending. They were Fyodor Dostoevsky and Sören Kierkegaard. Both men were pessimists. To Dostoevsky, the human situation was a tragic drama. To Kierkegaard, it was a tragic argument. Both men felt that the anguish of human experience, the truth of man's nature and God's nature and the relationship of God and man, could be grasped only by a new dimension of perception...
Then there were the children of hate. Their archetype is Benito Mussolini. As a young Socialist, he was poor, sickly and beset by strange anguish. "I am afraid of trees, of dogs, of the sky and my own shadow." He was always hungry and he despised the rich. Once, in a Lausanne park, he saw two elderly Englishwomen on a bench, lunching on hard-boiled eggs; he pounced on the women and snatched their lunch...