Word: anguish
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Murdoch wrote directly to FCC chairman Reed Hundt, declaring his "personal anguish" at the whole affair. But he backed his tears with bullets. That same day his Washington attorney, William Reyner Jr., also wrote to Hundt, at one point accusing NBC parent General Electric of having engaged "in a pattern of illegal activity, including criminal fraud, antitrust and anticompetitive conduct." He listed a series of examples, including GE's 1992 guilty plea on four counts of fraud associated with a sale of aircraft engines to Israel. These sins, Reyner continued, called into question "NBC's basic qualifications to continue...
Whether or not vertically-challenged females should don stiletto heels in order to ensnare potential mates, heels with the potential to spear cocktail olives do have the potential to make the person wearing them feel attractive. Are the piercing podiatric pulsations are worth it? You've endured the anguish of orthodontic appliances for your beautiful smile. Think of stiletto heels as braces for your feet...
...hand in cities, many militants have fled into the countryside. Driving beyond the capital, security forces find severed heads set on pikes and bodies strewn along the roadside. "Every bullet is met with a bullet," says a French Defense Ministry official. "This is not leading anywhere but deeper into anguish...
...musical and artistic talents with which they embellished themselves, their letter-writing and social calls--offered little fodder for fiction, except in the hands of an adept like Jane Austen. Instead of presenting happy alternatives to boredom, fiction by and for women often presented them in positions of extreme anguish and suffering, spurned by lovers, neglected by husbands, etc. In comparison, Spacks argues, boredom would look good...
Respect, at least from the hip end of the rock establishment, has often eluded John. He lacks the anguish and ragged emotional edge of the existential rock star; he's closer to Neil Sedaka than to Bruce Springsteen. And there's something uncool-refreshingly so-about his naked need to be loved across the footlights. "Even if I had only one finger left," he once said, "I'd play for you." That's the credo of the compulsive showman, who loves to get people to sing along with all the tunes (Your Song, Daniel, Rocket Man, Crocodile Rock...