Word: anguishes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most countries an unemployment rate of only 3% would be nothing short of nirvana. But in Japan it is cause for national anguish and alarm. Because of continuing woes in such industries as steel and even autos, Japan has reached the 3% jobless level for the first time since it began keeping monthly employment statistics...
Davies' style is rabidly visual, propelling the chaos onwards with a manic mixture of anguish and humor. A character stopping at a video store prompts this description...
...parties designed to recruit the "right types" of people. Then, after Harvard's peculiar version of fraternity rush closes, freshmen will play the numbers, attempting to select the ideal house to which their lottery numbers will permit entry. Not until the day before spring break will screams of anguish and joy emanate from the Yard, as freshmen finally learn where they will spend their next three years...
...families that have to deal with the suicide of a child, there's often a great deal of anguish and fragmentation of the family, and this is compounded by the fact that there tends to be a taboo in talking about it. Family members are often ashamed and reluctant to talk with members of the community," Mack said...
Later on, there is a darker wonder: a remote broadcast making the entire nation privy to the anguish of the Phelps family, whose daughter is trapped in a well. The reporter on the spot, no less than his listeners, expects the incident to end happily. Everything always did on the radio, which was an even more efficient dream machine than the movies. But no. The child dies. The dismay in the announcer's voice is caused not only by an "unexpected human tragedy" but by the way reality has let down the medium...