Word: anguish
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...taken three inches off his tremendous waistline in the last three months, British Cinema Director Alfred Hitchcock, now down to a mere 250 pounds (from 292), explained how he did it: not just by eating one normal meal a day instead of three huge ones, but by the mental anguish caused by the constant thought of the food he was missing...
...anguish of most major GOP businessmen, the Senate's Republicans rejected this principle, for the high-minded pleasure of casting 23 solid votes against something approved by Franklin Roosevelt. To the shame of many a thoughtful Western Democrat, many Democratic Western Senators rejected the principle, on the theory that the import of $4,411,853 worth of Argentine canned meats is injurious to the $1,144,000,000 U. S. cattle industry. In this emergency, the Administration feared to trust wholly to Kentucky's Alben Barkley, Senate leader. Afraid that "Peerless Leader'' Barkley might lose votes...
Chief dental weapon at that time was "the key," a large iron hook with a head that ringed an aching tooth, a long handle for a good grip. "There never was a claw on bird or beast," wrote Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, "that was the cause of such anguish . . . such howls of agony as that diabolical instrument looking like a vulture's talon...
...charities and family went $369,067 net (including $246,769 in Egyptian bonds) from the estate of Pearl (Perils of Pauline) White, whose episodic escapes from death & worse left cinemaudiences of 25 years ago in weekly anguish and to whom death came inescapably...
...mangled as if to tear the guts and heart out of the enemy. . . ." The Union General George Brinton McClellan, who prudently chose to fight a war of attrition, never meeting Lee if he could help it without overwhelming superiority in manpower, caused Lincoln a long year of anguish. Yet by resisting for months public and political pressure to remove him, Lincoln allowed him to build a great army; by later reappoint-ing him, again against great pressure, he restored to the army the one favorite and familiar commander under whom it had the spirit to beat off Lee at Antietam...