Word: anguished
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...idea struck a responsive chord among TIME'S editors in New York City, particularly Associate Editor Claudia Wallis, our Medicine writer. She had been interested in the subject ever since 1978, when she experienced the anguish of surgery for a fractured kneecap. The result is this week's cover story, which was written by Wallis and contributed to by Reporter-Researcher Mary Carpenter...
...Teflon magic refuse to acknowledge his gains and exaggerate his failures. Mayors who feared that federal aid cuts would bankrupt their cities now run surpluses. The estimates by Reagan's critics that 3 million people are homeless proved to be overblown by tenfold. Such attacks diminish the true anguish of the needy and insult American intelligence...
What started in anguish ended in fury. After an Easter week of vacationing on the beach, Dominicans returned to work Monday to find that the government had sharply raised the prices on most of their basic foods. Bread rolls went up to 5? from 2½?, milk from 45? a quart to 55?, sugar from 26? per lb. to 31?. Several opposition groups immediately organized demonstrations across the country to protest the increases, which were instituted under the government's new austerity program. But their protests rapidly got out of control...
...terms of plot, the show is merely the stuff of any normal television soap opera: rape, plunder, anguish, despair. But the yearlong Japanese TV series Sanga Moyu is causing a real-life melodrama of its own. Based on a popular novel, Two Homelands by Toyoko Yamasaki, it is the story of the Japanese-American Amoh family, immigrants to the U.S. whose national loyalties are tested by World War II. The homeland they choose does not choose them, and the Amohs live through racist humiliation, imprisonment in a California relocation center and other indignities. The show has been so popular...
...Paratroop Regiment, was startled, but escaped injury; his assailant, a Toulouse nightclub bouncer named Lionel Rehal, 26, was wounded in the thigh by one of the shots fired at him. While officials considered what, if any, charges to lodge against Rehal, members of his family attributed his act to anguish over the death of his brother Laurent, 19. But they also complained, as did relatives of the other dead paratroopers, that the government had been less than forthcoming in explaining the casualties. Hernu originally announced that the men had died in a "tragic accident" while removing abandoned rebel vehicles. Government...