Word: anguish
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Brooklyn Dodger fans are used to great suffering. With particular anguish, they can remember the time Hack Wilson was hit on the head by a fly ball while sassing the bleachers; the time three Dodgers tried to slide into the same base at the same time; the time Babe Herman's pants caught fire because he forgot to douse his cigar before putting it in his pocket...
...tion ever known. . . . A Polish woman remarked to me today, 'We are weary of dying'. . . . It is a forbidding picture, but with food until the next harvest, Poland can rise again." The Responsibility. From Warsaw Hoover hurried on to Helsinki, then to London. A continent's anguish cried out through him as he spoke to an international emergency conference on European grain supplies: "Hunger sits at the table thrice daily in hundreds of millions of homes. . . . The world uses the words 'starvation' and 'famine' very loosely; some travelers glibly report there...
...Please accept my assurance that there was no malicious intent. . . . It was the farthest thing from my mind to want to cause you any mental anguish. . . . As I have since told people, you were one of my favorite teachers and that's why your name has stuck with me through all the years...
...yowl of anguish shook the rafters. Miss Sylva valiantly spoke the moderately funny lines for which the banana business had been a cue, but they were completely drowned in the hubbub. A perfectly good banana had been sacrificed to make-believe...
Josephine (Now in November) Johnson's first novel since 1937 is a study in passive, helpless anguish. Its subject: the cold fear, the ultimate spiritual paralysis, which lovelessness can create. Its victim: a shy, adopted child named Edith...