Word: anguishingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DESPITE ALL the pain and anguish, the lottery process can be truly a positive experience, bringing first-years together and injecting a sense of suspense and excitement into the other wise dreaded weeks of mid-term exams...
...storm of headlines stole the thunder from the campaign for Britain's April 9 general election. That the split also upstaged news about the nation's deepest slump since World War II demonstrated one value of the House of Windsor today: as a distraction. At a time of anguish over Britain's national direction, a Hollywood-style cult of celebrity surrounding Queen Elizabeth II's offspring has endowed the royal clan with a more modern relevancy. The Queen's second son and his wayward wife provided everything in the way of gossip-page dramatics that their 1986 wedding seemed...
Many other incidents of racial prejudice and harrassment go unreported. Perhaps victims have faith that things will eventually get better--the attitude expressed in shyoganai. This way of thinking did allow many Japanese Americans to assuage their anguish when discrimination took the form of barbed wire and loyalty tests...
Some of the anguish no doubt amounts to self-pity among some of the world's more spoiled citizens, now forced to clean up their debts, live within their means and build an economy that makes competitive sense in a world that has spectacularly changed. But the pain is real, and so is the fear of pain, even what is becoming a sort of national atmosphere of pain. As the President discovered, all that emotion compresses into an anger that has sharp political consequences...
...Cabot and elsewhere, cries of anguish mesh with political statements and the occasional metaphysical musing...