Word: anguish
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...rather somnolent existence, remaining comfortably curled up in a gum tree notch. At night they move about and eat the tender eucalyptus shoots which are their only food. Often, after dark, their heart-rending cry can be heard through the bush. A wail which is the very essence of anguish as a distraught mother seeks her lost offspring...
...became deadly serious. Being made ridiculous so often weakened Sir Hudson Lowe's already feeble intelligence. When Napoleon was dying of cancer, vomiting consistently, Lowe damned his agony as more play acting, refused the medical care which Napoleon demanded. After two weeks of his last illness, when his anguish had become intense, Napoleon's main thought was to keep his English enemy from, finding out how miserable he was. And as he was virtually breathing his last, the greatest trouble-maker in history could not refrain from sowing a little posthumous dissension: he gave some valuable books...
...intimate friends. At parties he is famed for his polite but sudden departures, for leaving his hat in a special place by itself, so that he will not have to rummage for it when he makes his getaway. Sensitive of other people's feelings to the point of anguish, he will sometimes blurt out what he fears is an unpalatable truth, then hastily cover up his remark with polite qualifications. Conversationally compact of nods and becks and wreathed smiles, he is a very different sort of fellow at his writing table...
...Paris the famed pro-League and pro-Blum French Correspondent Mme Genevieve Tabouis winced in anguish: "The Central European Powers are consolidated again, with Kaiser Wilhelm II and Kaiser Franz Josef replaced by Chancellor Hitler and Premier Mussolini! Austria is lost to France and Great Britain...
...print these might seem bold words, but Premier Blum spoke in the low, monotonous voice of a teacher reading some-well-worn lecture to his class. Gloomily he concluded: "Faith in peace is shaken. The final catastrophe seems to be preferred to the anguish of waiting...