Word: anguishes
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...sell America Fascism over the Italian radio. His daughter sees him most clearly not as the artist or the political man, but as a sage so heroically proportioned that he could deal on an immediate personal level with anyone. He was able to order his life consciously, despite the anguish he suffered from loving two women at once, and despite his incarceration as a traitor in his homeland...
Attica mourned its dead amidst undercurrents of anger and fear. The prison?the community's largest employer?had suddenly become not a source of income but of anguish, the focus of events beyond understanding and beyond control. Now police, reporters from large cities and assorted strangers poked around and asked questions, spreading rumors, raising new fears before the old ones had subsided. "We've been told to expect more trouble," explained Warren Peck, the local barber. "We don't want reprisals taken here," said a man near by. "But if they come in from Buffalo and start trouble, I think...
...Hatfield's growing opposition to the war in Viet Nam had already earned him a healthy amount of thinly disguised hate mail from "fellow Christians." The letters faulted the Senator for criticizing the President and accused him of encouraging antiwar protest. He came to the occasion in obvious anguish...
...proportions of brutal historical forces. Significant blows are struck. White buries his weapon in black's brain. Black directs a castrating swipe at white's sexuality. Malamud himself brings the curtain down with the brooding thought that at the moment of ritual bloodletting each felt the anguish of the other...
...only feels; he remembers (his Midwest childhood) and he fantasies (playing a hand of cards with Jesus Christ). After months of mute anguish, Joe is assigned a pretty young nurse who takes pity on him and even makes love to him. Joe eventually hits on the notion of communicating by tapping out Morse code with his head against the pillow...