Word: anguishes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...STATE of Alabama executed John Evans last Friday night. For Evans, a convicted murderer, that execution was anything but painless. Even if one can temporarily disregard the mental anguish associated with any execution, the physical pain must have been terrible. It required three 30-second blasts of electricity at 1900 volts to kill Evans over a 10-minute period--a long time in which to carry out any kind of execution...
Everybody knows an alcoholic, and everybody thinks he knows why the person drinks. Weak character. No self-control. Had a miserable childhood. Has a terrible marriage. Cannot face reality. Hates work. Is paranoid. The denials and rationalizations, the self-pity and selfimportance, the guilt and anguish are all parts of a predetermined type, the "alcoholic personality." Right...
...Israel's mandate emerged from her own populace to whom firm answers were due Where other nations have demed responsibility not only for the cites of other people but for the anguish of their own. Israel here elects to stand public trial, public verdict and public scorn...
...Spanish as he did throughout Central America, he told the audience assembled on the tarmac that he had come "to share the pain" of Central America and that he hoped to provide a voice for the searing images of daily life, for "the tears or deaths of children, the anguish of the elderly, of the mother who loses her children, of the long lines of orphans, of those many thousands of refugees, exiles or displaced persons searching for a home, of the poor with neither home nor work...
...Kohl's belt-tightening gospel was undoubtedly unpopular, but Vogel's vow to return to freer spending of dwindling government resources apparently turned out to be an unsatisfactory proposition for most voters. The newly mandated Chancellor is expected to cut where he can, weather the cries of anguish and wait for the beginning of the economic turn-around that many experts now expect...