Word: anguish
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...torment, but brave as she moaned and whispered a pitiful challenge: "I won't die! I won't die! Oh, let me have my baby!"-all strength within me fled and I wept from helplessness and pity. Chilled by the memory of that scene of dust and anguish and a woman's tears, I find it hard to believe that a woman, to achieve her complete development, need endure as much. As I said, the matter isn't one in which I should interfere with my opinion, but I hope Dr. Nielsen will find reason...
...right to free treatment and maintenance in the tax-supported county hospitals which citizens set up in better times. During Depression many a citizen who could have paid a private doctor some sort of fee has lied, wheedled or grafted his way into a free county hospital, to the anguish and anger of private practitioners...
...arms folded, as if his disgrace glued him to his chair. Finally he half rose, and for a moment seemed about to collapse. Then, with an effort, he stood erect, marched out of the Senate Chamber with a firm step. Newshawks crowded around asking questions. With a look of anguish in his eyes he declared: "I have nothing to say. God, can't you see why I have nothing to say? I'm going back to Florida...
...little more than a year ago the cotton market took a terrific one-day tumble. Prices dropped nearly $10 per bale in a few hours. Among the many to whom the "March 11th" break caused deep anguish was South Carolina's Senator Ellison DuRant Smith, self-appointed chamberlain to King Cotton. Forthwith, "Cotton Ed" Smith started an investigation which did not make the front page until a year later...
...Harvard Indifference" was proven early yesterday morning when residents of Gore Hall, Winthrop House, failed to notice the anguish of two young Cambridge women who were rolled in sheets in the court, tired, hungry, and cold...