Word: anguishing
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Some expressed the humiliation that has silenced them, and has prevented them from prosecuting their attackers. Others described their journeys from anguish and despair to strength and empowerment. Those who spoke ranged from middle-aged women to gay students, to students who had been molested as children, and friends of victims...
...farm and "pack up and leave." But he can't move-his land has been quarantined, leaving him little to do but despair. "I wake up every morning wondering whether the wind has blown this devilish disease to my cows," he says. "You can only imagine the state of anguish...
...farm and "pack up and leave." But he can't move - his land has been quarantined, leaving him little to do but despair. "I wake up every morning wondering whether the wind has blown this devilish disease to my cows," he says. "You can only imagine the state of anguish I'm in." Full Story...
ROBO HEART Only 2,000 human hearts are available each year to the 100,000 Americans who need one. When doctors tried 20 years ago to substitute an artificial heart, the experiment was a heroic failure attended by great public anguish. Now the FDA has approved--but only for testing--a new artificial heart: a grapefruit-size, battery-powered device called AbioCor. The robo heart will give patients limited mobility and is intended to be a permanent organ replacement, not a stopgap remedy...
...invention of the troubadour poets of the 12th and 13th centuries - they were the Beatles of the Middle Ages - who basically coined the grammar and syntax of romantic love. It is from them that we derive so many of our romantic assumptions about love - that love involves suffering and anguish, that there is love at first sight, that absence makes the heart grow fonder, that a grand passion is life's great ambition and that finally, as John Lennon said, All you need is love...