Word: anguishingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sunday picnic. Using the full leverage of his height and weight (6 ft. 7 in., 224 Ibs.), Sirola mixed awesome serves with overhead smashes to win in a rout, 9-7, 6-3, 8-6. Unable to stand the strain of watching the match, Pietrangeli had nursed his anguish at a nearby beach, returned just in time to see the final point, crying: "The best match I never saw Orlando play...
...audience laughs as they listen to her. Jo literally takes her mother to task for "ruining her life;" but her statement of sorrow, of being orphaned is made in such a childlike, inoffensive manner that its impact is not felt until the conclusion. Here the depths of Jo's anguish and the great meaning of her being alone and pregnant is driven home. Only at the end do lines humorously snapped off, such as "Your generation has some very peculiar ideas, that's all I can say," reverberate to their final, serious echo...
...young wives, and they can find small comfort in the driblets of letters that manage to seep through the Communist censorship. Among the personal messages the prisoners were permitted to write to their families, a few notes gave an inkling, especially as the Christmas season approached, of their solitary anguish. "I can't believe that nothing is happening," wrote Bruce Olmstead, "and I do my best to make it from one day to the next, hoping that some decision will present itself." Said John McKone: "This is an ordeal. I don't think that either...
...cease-fire by France. At the burial ceremony last week of ten Foreign Legion paratroopers killed in battle with the F.L.N., tough Colonel Jean Dufour, with tears in his eyes, said: "It is not possible their sacrifice has been in vain. It is not possible that our cries of anguish should be ignored by our compatriots in France...
...another debate is really to talk about Cuba, aand perhaps about Quemoy and Matsu as well, it is likely to give not only NATO but also the State Department a good deal of unnecessary anguish. Neither body wants to see men not in a position to make policy decision doing exactly that, and both resent seeing their best-laid plans destroyed with a few words to a television audience...