Word: anguish
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People leaped to the conclusion that the upheaval spelled new anguish for the British. They thought Makram might join anti-Nahas groups. They thought of an Egyptian convulsion right at the moment Rommel was eating his way toward the Nile...
Censor Troubles. Last December, when a British offensive in Libya unexpectedly bogged down, the London Daily Mirror cried in anguish: "Can nobody dampen the airy-fairy optimism of the military spokesmen in Cairo?" Apparently not. Even after Tobruk, the Cairo censorship seemed determined to let only pink fog get through the screen-thus taxing the ingenuity of one sardonic correspondent who was bound to get a little acid out along with the fog. Chester Morrison of the Chicago Sun cabled his paper: "The delicacies of censorship are such that I was stumped in trying to devise a way to tell...
Sued for Divorce. Julius ("Groucho") Marx; by Ruth Marx; after 21 years; in Los Angeles. She charged the loping, rapid-fire comedian with causing her "physical pain and mental anguish...
...Study card," thought Vag, and a puzzled frown rose to his face. What had it said on his card? With a gasp Vag wrenched open the brown envelope he'd been dangling and skimmed its contents. What was this: "Two signatures . . . forgotten . . . five o'clock!" With a cry of anguish Vag glanced at his watch and tore down the path. Beads of sweat stood out on his face...
...suffering, come a long way past her spoiled, too-sheltered girlhood. That is her own opinion, anyhow; some readers may feel rather that suffering, if it is to pay dividends, requires a sufferer. They may also feel that Emily's perceptions of Blairstown's social anguish are less Sophoclean than benevolently cross-eyed. But her sincerity and her delusions of self-knowledge, which the author appears wholeheartedly to share with her, will make Emily seem real and dear to thousands...