Word: anguishingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tragedy. Oh, the dismay. Oh, the blood. Oh, the anguish. When the statisticians came to put the cold figures on paper, they were as follows: as a result of one bomb-66,000 killed, 69,000 injured, 62,000 structures destroyed. That was the result of one bomb, made by man in the hope of stopping that war. Little did he realize what this thermonuclear weapon would do, and the anguish that would be brought into the hearts of men, women and children...
Then, with 18 minutes to play, South Africa bounced back to tie the score-and the black bleachers exploded in a roar of anguish. Nonwhites began pouring over their fence onto the field, hurling bottles and bricks. Police with drawn clubs rushed them, joined by volunteer whites. A white farmer emptied his pistol into...
...Euphoria Gazette, safe and suitable for Pollyanna's night table. We have too much of the world's sadness and spite to report. But our 102 correspondents around the world are in fact on the lookout for the merry and the positive as well as the anguish and the agonizing. A fair proportion of the half a million dollars a year we spend on cables, and the $300,000 that is our reportorial telephone and telegraph bill, is spent on news that is not just crisis. Not because we are trying to strike a false balance, but because...
...York! At first I was confused by your beauty, by those great golden long-legged girls. So shy at first before your metallic eyes, your frosted smile So shy. And the anguish in the depths of skyscraper streets Lifting eyes hawkhooded to the sun's eclipse. Sulphurous your light and livid the towers with heads that thunderbolt the sky The skyscrapers which defy the storms with muscles of steel and stone-glazed hide. But two weeks on the bare sidewalks of Manhattan At the end of the third week the fever seizes you with the pounce of a leopard...
More impressive still was the second song, a mournful dirge for a executed man later proved innocent. The transition from the joyous love of anticipated happiness to the grief of love that can only wail its anguish was smooth; the atmosphere in Sanders changed almost instantaneously...