Word: anguishes
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...atom bomb he had done so much to create. He would say later that he was inspired by a line from the poet John Donne: "Batter my heart, three-personed God." It was just like Oppenheimer, at a moment of triumph, to lay in a note of anguish. He may have been the physicist who led-- who drove--the scientific crash program at Los Alamos, N.M. But he was not a simple man. It tells you something that his idea of the right parting gift for one girlfriend was Dostoyevsky's The Possessed...
...rich and British. Wormwood, the third narrator, writing years after Johnny's death, reveals all?about the murder of a British mine operator on the trip, about Kunichika's sinister connections to the Japanese troops then poised to invade the Malay peninsula, and about Johnny's growing anguish over his reluctant bride. In Wormwood's literate and lively account, Johnny is a likable, slightly pathetic figure battered by the forces of British colonialism, Japanese militarism and, finally, his own greed...
...license if any new evidence about Ross's competence emerged after he had been executed. An hour from death, Ross backed down--in order to save his lawyer's neck, he says. The aborted execution cost the state of Connecticut $289,000 in wasted preparations and brought fresh anguish to the victims' families. The execution has been rescheduled for May 11, and Ross says he remains committed...
There is, in fact, no parallel to the anguish now being endured by America's gay men, who live in every town and city in the U.S. and total perhaps 12 million, as many as the combined population of all eight Mountain States. The desperation may be best reflected by a morbid joke that is being repeated in San Francisco: A son walks up to his mother and says, "Mom, I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that I'm gay." Distraught, the mother asks for the good news. He answers: "I'm also...
...littered with the corpses of loved ones. Keller has just lost his wife in a car crash, Silvia most of her family back home in Africa, under the bloody rule of the man who is about to deliver an address to the General Assembly. Add Keller's private anguish to her political rage, throw in the ticking time bomb of the international-intrigue plot, and there's enough narrative for three fine films...