Word: anguishes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...innocence. It was not the cold recital of available facts some of us had hoped for; but it was not a staunch defense of the record either. It fell between the two stools, defining rather than mitigating disaster. No one watching Nixon's desperation and anguish could avoid the impression that he was no longer in control of events...
...that he needed solace, an emotion that he considered weak but that was in fact the most human reaction possible. It makes no real difference. At the moment of his fall, I felt for Nixon a great tenderness-for the tremendous struggle he had fought within himself, for his anguish, his vulnerability and for his great aspirations defeated in the end by weaknesses of character that became destructive because he had never come to grips with them. If I did not in fact embrace him, I felt...
That mood passed too as Nixon's anguish engulfed us all. In defeat and disgrace he had at last prevailed; he had stripped us of our reserve; our hearts at last went out to this man who transcended his extremity by refusing to act as if he were defeated...
...tell Paul Volcker about the anguish of high interest rates and a moribund economy. Whereas many top Government officials can often find themselves cushioned from the consequences of their actions as public servants, the chairman of the Federal Reserve has been feeling the direct and personal impact of his economic prescriptions virtually every day of his life for the past 2½% years...
...first day in Jerusalem, I could sense that Israel had crossed the psychological Rubicon; it was at least thinking about moving to the west of Quneitra, beyond the pre-1973 defense line. The grudging Israeli procedures, the interminable sessions, the innuendoes about duress, the Talmudic precision, the obvious anguish of our interlocutors created an atmosphere compounded of petty irritation and a strange kind of exaltation at witnessing a people baring its soul so nakedly. It obscured the fact that crabwise, in a manner least calculated to get it credit, the Israeli Cabinet was extending itself to overcome its nightmares...