Word: anguishingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...risk being accused of handing him the keys to the Arab kingdom and losing Western economic and military support. Those who stand against Saddam could be stripped of their nationalist credentials back home, as traitors to the Arab cause -- or fall under Saddam's tanks as Kuwait did. The anguish of these leaders was evident as they groped to balance long-term strategic interests against short-term political aims...
...world of politics, the fusion of style, conviction and prescience had the paradoxical effect of giving Reagan flexibility. When Reagan seized the opportunity, late in his second term, to negotiate American intermediate-range missiles out of Europe, he provoked far less anguish among his movement conservative supporters than Richard Nixon did when he went to China. Reagan, unlike Nixon, had a reserve fund of trust, and he drew on it. A more pertinent example of a low-cost Reagan switch comes from his days as Governor of California. Reagan, as part of his general opposition to high taxes, believed that...
...process of making Watson larger than life somewhat undermines the larger, tougher themes of the book. Elsewhere the author's moral anguish is inescapable, and he can write like an avenging angel. His human sympathies range widely, from blacks who count neither as men nor animals, to Choctaws who are just slightly higher on the scale of outcasts, to Watson's pretty daughter, who at 13 is virtually sold into marriage and three years later still plays skip rope in the streets of Fort Myers...
They were neither amused nor encouraging. "My mother wanted to protect me from the fabled anguish of the literary life. She said I could be a doctor and write on the side, like Chekhov and William Carlos Williams." No sale. At Amherst College in the hubbub of the counterculture '60s, Turow became more rebellious still. During his freshman year, he and 22 other students marched against Army recruiters on campus; all promptly lost their student draft deferments. Turow eventually received a 1-Y permanent deferment because of a chronic anemic condition...
When Prejean lost his final legal appeal as expected Thursday evening, only the Governor, with his power of clemency, could spare him. "If it were just a question of law, there wouldn't be the anguish involved," said Roemer, lapsing into near biblical cadences even as he glanced at his watch to see if was time to pick up his nine-year-old son Dakota and take him to baseball practice. "The law having been writ, a human stands under the tree. The courts having ruled, I stand with him. I have to make a decision...